Where: Austria (48.0° N, 15.8° E: paleocoordinates 18.2° N, 20.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Opponitzer Limestone Member, Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)
• Opponitzer Limestone is the uppermost member of the Lunz Formation and is dated as Tuvalian (upper Carnian) on the basis of palynomorphs (e.g. Pott et al. 2007. Palaeontology 50:1299-1318), see Collection No. 97854
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Bittner. 1895. Revision der Lamellibranchiaten von St. Cassian. Abhandlungen der kaiserlich-koniglichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 18(1):1-236 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 202353: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 09.07.2019
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Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Lima austriaca n. sp.
Lima austriaca n. sp. Bittner 1895 file clam |