Plesching Austernbank (Oligocene of Austria)

Where: Austria (48.3° N, 14.3° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° N, 11.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Miogypsina (Miogypsinoides) formosensis foram zone, Linz Sands Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Egerian stage = (Chattian/Aquitanian) but Upper Oligocene based on foram

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, coarse-grained, ferruginous sandstone

• "Coarse-grained sands, replete with fossils and containing a thick oyster bank,

•generally indicate a shallow subtidal environment"

• ferruginous sand bed, irregularly cemented and coarse-grained in places

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: coquina

Collected by Dr. F. Steininger

• Repository: Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, Geologisch-Paläontologische Abteilung

•Catalog numbers 1988/58-59.

Primary reference: U. Radwanska and A. Radwanski. 1989. A new species of inarticulate brachiopods, Discinisca steiningeri sp. nov., from the Late Oligocene (Egerian) of Plesching near Linz, Austria. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 90:67-82 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163576: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 04.11.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Discinida - Disciniidae
Discinisca steiningeri n. sp.
Discinisca steiningeri n. sp. Radwanska and Radwanski 1989
20 complete specimens and 50 partly damaged specimens