Atzl Reef, Interval 4, Brandenberg, Austria (Cretaceous of Austria)

Also known as Reef 1275

Where: Austria (47.5° N, 11.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 13.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Unnamed Formation, Early/Lower Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified floatstone and lithified grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. Sanders and R. C. Baron-Szabo. 1997. Coral-rudist bioconstructions in the Upper Cretaceous Haidach section (Northern Calcaerous Alps, Austria). Facies 36:69-90 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24268: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 04.08.2002, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Polystrata alba Pfender 1936
listed as Ethelia
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolitidae indet. Gray 1848 rudist
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Vaccinites sp. Fischer 1887 rudist
 Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Plagioptychus sp. Matheron 1842 rudist
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Placophylliidae
Placophyllia cf. curvata Turnsek 1974 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Kobyastraeidae
Kobyastraea sp. Roniewicz 1970 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
"Pleurocora cf. alternans" = Pleurocora arachnoides
"Pleurocora cf. alternans" = Pleurocora arachnoides Knorr and Walch 1777 stony coral
 Helioporacea -
 Helioporacea - Helioporidae
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Stellispongiidae
Peronidella ? robusta calcareous sponge