Where: Austria (47.9° N, 14.4° E: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 22.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Steinmühl Formation, Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• decimetre to centimetre bedded; Ammonite Zonation: Campylotoxis zone; Capionellid Zonation: Calpionellites zone, Major subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, condensed, gray wackestone

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 60205: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 06.05.2006

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