Where: Germany (47.6° N, 11.7° E: paleocoordinates 30.5° N, 13.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Branderfleck Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified marl and lithified sandstone
•the northern border of the Austroalpine unit may be linked to the formation of an accretionary wedge in the context of the beginning subduction of the Penninic
•Ocean (Pfiffner 2010). According to Weidich (1984b), the sediments at the Roßsteinalmen were deposited in water ranging from about 50 m deep
•on the inner shelf (base of the section) to about 100 m on a middle shelf area (upper part of the section).
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: two large private collections of Alpine fossils that are now housed in the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology. One of the private collectors was Otto Hölzl, who visited the locality Roßsteinalmen repeatedly
•between 1941 and 1948. The other private collector, Alfred Holinka, collected fossils there between 1951 and 1961. Further material was sampled in the context of a diploma thesis (Steinberg 1980).
Primary reference: H. Löser, W. Werner, and R. Darga. 2013. A Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Northern Calcareous Alps (Bavaria, Southern Germany) – new insights into the evolution of Mid-Cretaceous corals. Zitteliana A 53:37-76 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 160830: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 29.08.2014, edited by Nida Ashraf
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Synastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Astraeofungia schmidti stony coral
Eosiderastrea cf. glomerata stony coral
Eosiderastrea stefani Loeser 2016 stony coral | |
Leptophyllaraea cf. granulata stony coral | |
Trochoseropsis ettalensis Soehle 1897 stony coral | |
"Ceratosmilia arnaudi" = Smilotrochus arnaudi
"Ceratosmilia arnaudi" = Smilotrochus arnaudi Alloiteau 1957 stony coral | |
Eothelia bavarica Löser et al. 2013 stony coral
Eothelia hoelzli Löser et al. 2013 stony coral | |
Cryptocoenia waltoni, Cryptocoenia antiqua, Cryptocoenia aguilerai, Columellophora sp., Columellophora velimensis
Cryptocoenia waltoni stony coral
Cryptocoenia antiqua d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
Cryptocoenia aguilerai Reyeros-Navarro 1963 stony coral
Columellophora sp. Eliasova 1989 stony coral
Columellophora velimensis Eliasova 1989 stony coral | |
Stylina inwaldensis Ogilvie 1897 stony coral | |
Styloheterocoenia sp. Löser et al. 2018 stony coral | |
Dimorphastrea cf. hiraigensis stony coral
Microphyllia cf. oldhamiana stony coral | |
Negoporites sp. Eliasova 1989 stony coral
Negoporites cf. quartus Eliasova 1995 stony coral | |
Dimorpharaea williamsonensis stony coral | |
Felixigyra deangelisi Prever 1909 stony coral | |
Neocoenia exsculpta stony coral
Neocoenia renzi Hackemesser 1936 stony coral | |
"Hydnophoraraea parviconus" = Hydnophora
"Hydnophoraraea parviconus" = Hydnophora stony coral | |
Pachygyra cucullata stony coral
Aulosmilia inconstans stony coral
Aulosmilia sp. Alloiteau 1952 stony coral
Aulosmilia parkinsoni stony coral | |
Trochophyllia aprutina stony coral | |
Polyastropsis cf. fascigera stony coral | |
Actinastrea limbata stony coral
Actinastrea subdecaphylla Oppenheim 1930 stony coral | |
Placoseris | |
Placoseris cf. eturbensis Fromentel 1857 |