Where: Austria (47.9° N, 14.4° E: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 23.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Steinmühl Formation, Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)
• decimetre to centimetre bedded; Ammonite Zonation: Boissieri zone; Capionellid Zonation: Calpionellopsis zone, Oblonga subzone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, condensed, red limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: bulk, acetic, sieve,
• Material is deposited in the paleontological collections of the Museum of Natural History (NHMW), Vienna, Austria; data on macrofossils is given but assignement to specific beds only partially possible
Primary reference: A. Lukeneder and D. Rehakova. 2004. Lower Cretaceous Section of the Ternberg Nappe (Northern Calcareous Alps, Upper Austria): facies-changes, biostratigraphy and paleoecology. Geologica Carpathica 55(3):227-237 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60202: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 06.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
? Oppelia sp. ammonite | |
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite | |
Phylloceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite | |
Protozoa | |
Nodosariata | |
Dentalina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804 | |
Foraminifera | |
Patellina sp. Williamson 1858 | |
Glomospirella sp. Plummer 1945 |