Hofergraben Mmb: Late/Upper Santonian, Austria
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lituolida
- Haplophragmoididae
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Haplophragmoides sp.
Cushman 1910
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unclassified
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Goupillaudina sp.
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Cuneolinidae
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Cuneolina sp.
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Dictyopsellidae
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Dictyopsella sp.
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Tubothalamea
- Miliolida
- Cornuspiridae
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Vidalina sp.
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Tubothalamea
- Miliolida
- Meandropsinidae
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Nummofallotia sp.
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Tubothalamea
- Miliolida
- Hauerinidae
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Idalina sp.
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Quinqueloculina sp.
d'Orbigny 1826
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Tubothalamea
- Miliolida
- Miliolidae
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Pyrgo sp.
Defrance 1824
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Lepitorbitoididae
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Daviesina sp.
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Actinacididae
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Actinacis sp.
d'Orbigny 1849
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Pamiroseriidae
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Actinastraea sp.
(d'Orbigny 1849)
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= Ceriostella sp.
Roniewicz and Stanley 1998
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Montlivaltiidae
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Placosmilia sp.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Meandrinidae
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Diploctenium sp.
Goldfuss 1827
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Pachygyra sp.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Cunnolitidae
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Cunnolites sp.
Gagnebin 1772
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abundant specimens | ||||||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agatheliidae
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Agathelia sp.
Reuss 1854
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Gastropoda
- Aporrhaidae
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Aporrhaidae indet.
Gray 1850
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Naticidae indet.
Guilding 1834
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Gastropoda
- Cassiopidae
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Cassiope sp.
Coquand 1865
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Acteonellidae
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Actaeonella sp.
(d'Orbigny 1843)
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original and current combination Acteonella | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Acteonidae
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Trochactaeon sp.
Meek 1863
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Gastropoda
- Neritidae
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Neritidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Hippuritidae
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Vaccinites spp.
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Hippurites spp.
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Radiolitidae
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Lapeirousia sp.
Bayle 1878
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Plagioptychidae
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Plagioptychus sp.
Matheron 1842
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Micrasteridae
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Micraster sp.
Agassiz 1836
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unclassified
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Thalassinoides sp.
Ehrenberg 1944
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Austria |
Coordinates: | 47.6° North, 13.5° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 32.1° North, 15.6° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Santonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Santonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 85.80000 - 83.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Gosau | Formation: | Hochmoos | Member: | Hofergraben |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | silty marl |
Lithology description: sheets to mounds of colonial corals and rudists; | |
Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Geology comments: variable relative proportions of neritic soft-substrate level-bottoms with a potentially reef-building assemblage of corals and rudists. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 146295 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Krause, W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2013-06-21 00:03:13 | Last modified: | 2013-06-20 09:03:13 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2013-09-21 00:03:13 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
47270. | D. Sanders and R. Baron-Szabo. 2008. Palaeoecology of solitary corals in soft-substrate habitats: the example of Cunnolites (upper Santonian, Eastern Alps). Lethaia 41:1-14 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause] |
Secondary references:
52446 | W. Kiessling. 2014. Taxonomic revisions of scleractinian corals. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |