Where: Austria (47.4° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 30.2° N, 14.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Garschella Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the MNHN
Collection methods: surface (float),
• COLLECTORS: H.A. Kollmann and historic authors (notably Vacek, 1879, Baumberger and Fussenegger, 1933, and Heim et al. 1934). REPOSITORY: Collections reposited in the Vorarlberger Naturschau, Geologische Bundesantalt, Bayerische Staatssammulung fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Hungarian Geological Survey, and Museum National d'Historie Naturelle, Paris.
Primary reference: R. C. Baron-Szabo. 2017. Scleractinian corals from the upper Aptian–Albian of the Garschella Formation of central Europe (western Austria; eastern Switzerland): The Albian. Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 157(1-4):241-260 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 193916: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Stephanophyllia plattenwaldensis Baron-Szabo 2017 stony coral | |
Bathycyathus laevigatus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral |