Jauring and Pletschgraben, Aflenz Basin (Miocene of Austria)

Where: Styria, Austria (47.6° N, 15.3° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 14.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Feistring Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; sandstone and gravel

• Lake Groisenbach
• lacustrine sand within gravel

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Harzhauser, T. A. Neubauer, O. Mandic, M. Zuschin, and S. Coric. 2012. A Middle Miocene endemic freshwater mollusc assemblage from an intramontane Alpine lake (Aflenz Basin, Eastern Alps, Austria). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 86:23-41 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126917: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.04.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Lymnaeidae
Stagnicola reinholdkunzi n. sp. Harzhauser et al. 2012 snail
 Heterostropha - Planorbidae
Planorbis austroalpinus n. sp. Harzhauser et al. 2012 snail
Ferrissia crenellata n. sp. Harzhauser et al. 2012 snail
Bulinus corici n. sp. Harzhauser et al. 2012 snail
Gyraulus sachsenhoferi n. sp. Harzhauser et al. 2012 snail
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Theodoxus crenulatus Klein 1853 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Emmerciidae
Emmericia roetzeli n. sp. Harzhauser et al. 2012 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Hydrobiidae
Odontohydrobia styriaca n. sp. Harzhauser et al. 2012 snail
Odontohydrobia groisenbachensis n. sp. Harzhauser et al. 2012 snail
Odontohydrobia pompatica n. sp. Harzhauser et al. 2012 snail
Romania fastigata n. sp. Harzhauser et al. 2012 snail
Nematurella zuschini n. sp. Harzhauser et al. 2012 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Sphaeriidae
Pisidium cf. casertanum Poli 1791 pea clam