Where: Austria (47.9° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 13.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oiching Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Lowermost Danian. The lowermost Danian is characterized by an acme event of the calcareous dinoflagellate genus Thoracosphaera sp.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, argillaceous marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by I. Feichtinger, J. Pollerspöck, B. Beaury in 2021; reposited in the NHMW

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, peroxide

Primary reference: I. Feichtinger, J. Pollerspöck, M. Harzhauser, G. Auer, S., M. Kranner, B. Beaury and G. Guinot. 2024. Earliest Danian outer neritic elasmobranch assemblages reveal an environmentally controlled faunal turnover at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary in the northern Tethyan Realm (Austria). Papers in Palaeontology 10(e1547) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 233260: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.02.2024

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