Where: Austria (47.0° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 30.7° N, 16.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sagenites reticulatus zone, Hochalm, Unit 2 Member (Koessen Formation), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)
• Sagenitus reticulatus Zone belongs according to Krystyn (1987, 1990) to the Upper Norian, according to Dagys and Dagys (1990) to the Lower Rhaetian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: R. Golebiowski. 1989. Stratigraphie und Biofacies der Koessener Formation (Obertrias, Nordliche Kalkalpen). Ph.D. thesis, University of Vienna, Austria 1-253 [F. Fursich/A. Tomasovych/S. Hicks]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 27986: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Adam Tomasovych on 19.01.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Lyriomyophoria inflata" = Myophoria inflata
"Lyriomyophoria inflata" = Myophoria inflata Emmrich 1853 clam | |
Palaeocardita austriaca Hauer 1853 clam | |
Atreta intusstriata Emmrich 1853 scallop | |
Plagiostoma punctatum Sowerby 1818 file clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhaetina gregaria Suess 1854 |