Where: Austria (47.6° N, 12.8° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 22.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• no exact age can be given

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: F. Schlagintweit. 2004. Murania reitneri n. sp., a new sclerosponge from the Upper Jurassic of the Northern Calcareous Alps (Plassen Formation, Austria and Germany). Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 95/96:37-45 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117181: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.09.2011

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