Weissbach bei Löfer (Jurassic to of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.5° N, 12.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 20.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Weissbach Formation, Late/Upper Sinemurian to Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 183.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone and lithified marl

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: H. Mostler and K. Krainer. 1993. Neue Ophiuren aus Liassischen Slope-Sedimenten der nördlischen Kalkalpen in der Ungebung von Lofer (Salzburg). Geologisch−Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck 19:29-47 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94712: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 10.03.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Ophiuroidea
 Myophiurina -
Ophioliassica baloghi Mostler and Krainer 1993 brittle star
 Myophiurina - Ophioliassica ingridae
Ophioliassica ingridae Mostler and Krainer 1993 brittle star
Asteroidea
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Asteroidea indet. de Blainville 1830 sea star
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily