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
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 | |
Orbirhynchia parkinsoni Owen 1960 | |
? Gemmarcula plattenwaldensis Sulser and Friebe 2002 | |
Moutonithyris dutempleana d'Orbigny 1851 | |
Anthozoa | |
Podoseris sp. Duncan 1869 stony coral |