Where: Austria (48.1° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° N, 12.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ottnang Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Paisslberg, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Ottnangian stage (=middle Burdigalian); nannoplankton zone NN3 (Grunert et al., 2010). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: from the grey marls, for which stratigraphic position is not discussed.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, brown, gray, argillaceous, sandy siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the NHMW
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Natural History Museum Vienna (Austria).
Primary reference: M. Harzhauser and J. Schloegl. 2012. Lepadiform and scalpelliform barnacles from the Oligocene and Miocene of the Paratethys Sea. Palaeontology 55(5):923-936 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 160672: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Scalpellum pfeifferi Weithofer 1887 barnacle |