Bed 27, Section KB1-A, Schrambach Fm (Cretaceous of Austria)

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

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Ammonite Zonation: Verrucosum zone; Capionellid Zonation: Timtinnopsella zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, bioturbated, gray, argillaceous limestone

• KB1-A crosses the western part of the east-west striking Losenstein Syncline, which is situated in the southernmost part of the Ternberg Nappe, and is the last Syncline to the north filled with Lower Cretaceous Sediments. KB1-A situated directly on the border between Ternberg Nappe and Reichraming Nappe
• pale gray even bedded marly limestone strata consist of locally bioturbated echinoderm wackestone to mudstone containing crinoids, bryozoans, globochaets, ostracods, juvenile aptychi, fragments of rhyncholites, algae fragments and calcareous dinoflagellates

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 60227: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 08.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Protozoa
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Cadosina semiradiata, Stomiosphaera wanneri
 Ichnofossils -
Chondrites sp., Zoophycos sp.
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855