Maurach locality, Package 2 : Conglomerate and grainstones (Cretaceous to of Austria)
Where: Austria (47.4° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 13.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gosau Group, Turonian to Turonian (93.9 - 85.8 Ma)
• Lower Gosau Subgroup
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; conglomerate and grainstone
• The conglomerate consists mainly of subrounded to well-rounded clasts of limestone and, subordinately, cherty limestones and chert. The limestone clasts are bioclastic grainstones and packstones, spiculitic mudstone to packstones, ooid grainstone sand, rarely, boundstones with ?demosponges, corals and Miliolacea
• Conglomerate and grainstones
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: D. Sanders. 1996. The Upper Cretaceous near Maurach (Tyrol, Austria). Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck Band 21 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 156228: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 13.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| unclassified | |
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Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758 | |
| Bryozoa | |
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
| Malacostraca | |
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Callianassa sp. Leach 1814 decapod | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Astrocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
| Tubothalamea | |
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Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 | |
| Foraminifera | |
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Nautiloculina sp. Mohler 1938 | |
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Textulariacea indet. Ehrenberg 1839 | |
| Florideophyceae | |
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Archaeolithothamnium sp. Rothpletz 1891 | |