Sauermöser Alm, Gosau (Cretaceous of Austria)

Where: Upper Austria, 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, Gosau Group, Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; marl

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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. Förster. 1970. Neue Dekapoden-Reste aus der Oberkreide von Mozambique, Norddeutschland und den bayerischen Alpen. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 44(3/4):134-144 [M. Clapham/Z. Lipson/J. Fearon]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 235697: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by J Fearon on 19.07.2024

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Palaeocorystidae
Notopocorystes schloenbachi