Maurach locality, Package 3 : Shallow-water limestones (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: perireef or subreef; cherty/siliceous grainstone and packstone

• The shallow-water limestones include bioclastic grainstones to packstones and rudstones. The bioclastic grainstones to packstones are composed of bioclasts derived from molluscs (including rudists), corals, echinoderms, and red algae. In addition, miliolids, textulariaceans, and some small, rounded lithoclasts (limestone, chert ) are present. The bioclastic rudstone are mainly composed of coral debris embedded in a matrix of bioclastic grainstone.
• bioclastic grainstones to packstones and rudstones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

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 156244: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolitidae indet.
Radiolitidae indet. Gray 1848 rudist
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Hippuritidae indet., Vaccinites sp.
Hippuritidae indet. Gray 1848 rudist
Vaccinites sp. Fischer 1887 rudist
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet.
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet.
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Foraminifera
 Textulariacea -
Textulariacea indet.
Textulariacea indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Corallinales indet.
Corallinales indet. Silva and Johansen 1986