Where: Austria (47.8° N, 13.8° E: paleocoordinates 30.6° N, 17.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sagenites reticulatus zone, Hochalm,Unit2 Member (Kossen Formation), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)
• Age assignment changed from Norian to Rhaetian by W. Kiessling. Following the re-definition of the Rhaetian stage by Dagys and Dagys (1994, Global correlation of the terminal Triassic: Memoires de Geologie (Lausanne), v. 22, p. 25-34) the Kossen Formation is now considered to be entirely Rhaetian in age (McRoberts pers. comm., Kiessling et al. 2007).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; marl and carbonate
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 28505: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Adam Tomasovych on 18.02.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Atreta intusstriata Emmrich 1853 scallop | |
Rhaetavicula contorta Portlock 1843 pearl oyster | |
Gervillia inflata Schafhaeutl 1851 oyster | |
Palaeocardita austriaca Hauer 1853 clam |