Weisse Wand, Karavanke Mountains (Triassic of Austria)

Where: Austria (46.5° N, 14.2° E: paleocoordinates 7.2° N, 23.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Weisse Wand Member (Loibl Formation), Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Early Fassanian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified limestone

• autochthonous soft-ground fauna of an aphotic pelagic environment
• red nodular limestones above the Late Anisian algal reef limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: K. Krainer and H. Mostler. 1992. Neue hexactinellide Poriferen aus der südalpinen Mitteltrias der Karawanken (Kärnten, Österreich) [New hexactinellid Porifera from the southern Alpine Middle Triassic of the Karawanken Mountains (Carinthia, Austria)]. Geologisch-Palaeontologische Mitteilungen 18:131-150 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73878: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.07.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Hexactinellida
 Lyssacinosa - Krainerella ingridae
Krainerella ingridae n. gen. n. sp.
Krainerella ingridae n. gen. n. sp. Krainer and Mostler 1992 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa -
Carinthiaspongus ramosus n. gen. n. sp., Scotospongia aculeata n. gen. n. sp.
Carinthiaspongus ramosus n. gen. n. sp. Krainer and Mostler 1992 glass sponge
Scotospongia aculeata n. gen. n. sp. Krainer and Mostler 1992 glass sponge