Where: Austria (48.6° N, 16.4° E: paleocoordinates 48.1° N, 16.1° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Overlying Karpatian sediments, but also regionally overlying Paleocene-Jurassic basement rock. THICKNESS: Sampled horizon of ~10 cm within approximately 17 m thick composite section (composed of ~3 m thick pits. AGE: Early Badenian, Lower Lagenid froam biozone, NN5, M5 planktic foram biozone, lower Langhian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From near base of section, in Balanid/molluck - siltclay.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue, silty claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Mandic, Harzhauser, Spezzaferri, Zuschin
Collection methods: bulk, peroxide, sieve,
• METHODS: Collections soaked and sieved (1mm). REPOSITORY: Either University of Wien (Vienna), or Museum of Natural History (NHMW).
Primary reference: O. Mandic, M. Harzhauser, S. Spezzaferri and M. Zuschin. 2002. The paleoenvironment of an early Middle Miocene Paratethys sequence in NE Austria with special emphasis on mollusks and foraminifera. Geobios 24:193-206 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74648: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Trochidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 top snail
Gibbula buchi Dubois 1831 top snail | |
"Astraea (Bolma) sp." = Bolma
"Astraea (Bolma) sp." = Bolma Risso 1826 snail | |
Bittium (Semibittium) multilirata cerith snail | |
Alvania perregularis snail | |
Anachis guembeli snail
Pyrene (Atilia) fallax Hörnes and Auinger 1880 snail | |
Nassariidae indet. Iredale 1916 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Chama (Psolopus) gryphoides Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Circomphalus subplicatus dOrbigny 1852 venus clam
Paphia (Callistotapes) benoisti venus clam | |
Lutraria sp. Lamarck 1799 clam | |
Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba Oliva 1792 clam | |
"Scalaricardita scalaris" = Cyclocardia (Scalaricardita)
"Scalaricardita scalaris" = Cyclocardia (Scalaricardita) clam |