Sattelberg (Cretaceous of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.3° N, 9.6° E: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 16.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tardefurcata ammonoid zone, Klaus Beds Member (Garschella Formation), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• Tardefurcata and mammillatum zones as well as dentatus-zone (very rare)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, phosphatic sandstone

• Phosphatic, condensed bed above a dark glauconitic sandstone. Extremely weathered with phosphatic internal casts in a sandy matrix.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: hydrochloric, sieve,

• Repository: Vorarlberger Naturschau, Dornbirn (Austria)

Primary reference: H. Sulser and J. G. Friebe. 2002. Brachiopods from the Plattenwald Bed (Albian, Cretaceous) of the Helvetic Alps of Vorarlberg (Austria). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 95(3):415-427 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157095: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.06.2014, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
 Terebratulida - Terebrataliidae
? Gemmarcula plattenwaldensis Sulser and Friebe 2002
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Podoseris sp. Duncan 1869 stony coral