Where: Austria (47.7° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 22.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rossfeld Formation, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• The locality is situated in the southernmost part of the Tirolic Unit which underlays

•and/or neighbours in this region a small ‘Hallstädter Scholle’. The Tirolic Unit is a

•part the ‘Traunalpen Scholle’ which at this region displays the westernmost part of the

•Staufen-Höllengebirgs Nappe.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified, bioturbated, glauconitic, brown sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: A. Lukeneder. 2005. Taphonomy and stratigraphy of Early Cretaceous ammonoid mass occurrences (Late Valanginian; Northern Calcareous Alps; Upper Austria). Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 98:34-51 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55585: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 01.11.2005, edited by John Alroy

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