Finstergrabenwandl (Kastl collection) (Cretaceous of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.6° N, 13.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Damesites compactus ammonoid zone, Sandkalkbank Member (Hochmoos Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified shale

• variable relative proportions of neritic soft-substrate level-bottoms with a potentially reef-building assemblage of corals and rudists.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Kastl collection, Linz

Primary reference: H. Summesberger. 1979. Eine obersantone Ammonitenfauna aus dem Becken von Gosau (Oberösterreich). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 82:109-176 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178862: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Nowakites draschei
Nowakites draschei Redtenbacher 1873 ammonite