WB 14, Weissenbachalm, Styria, Austria (Cretaceous to of Austria)

Also known as Reef 3194

Where: Styria, Austria (47.6° N, 13.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 16.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 72.1 Ma)

• Based on bivalves

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, argillaceous reef rocks

• Marly limestone boulders in rudist-coral-brachiopod facies. Reworked small bioherms. Infrequent encrustations by serpulids.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical, peel or thin section,

• Study focusing on corals

Primary reference: R. C. Baron-Szabo. 1999. Taxonomy of Upper Cretaceous scleractinian corals of the Gosau Group (Weissenbackalm, Steiermark, Austria). Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt Wien 56(2):441-464 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25480: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 13.09.2002

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Hippuritida -
"Hippuritoidea indet." = Hippuritacea
"Hippuritoidea indet." = Hippuritacea Gray 1848 rudist
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea fromenteli Alloiteau 1954 stony coral
Columactinastraea formosissima Sowerby 1831 stony coral
[entered as Columactinastrea formosissima]
 Scleractinia - Placocoeniidae
"Paraplacocoenia orbignyana" = Paraplacocoenia rotula
"Paraplacocoenia orbignyana" = Paraplacocoenia rotula Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acrosmiliidae
Acrosmilia conica d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral