Hofergraben Mmb: Late/Upper Santonian, Austria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
Haplophragmoides sp. Cushman 1910
unclassified
Goupillaudina sp.
Cuneolinidae
Cuneolina sp.
Dictyopsellidae
Dictyopsella sp.
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Vidalina sp.
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Meandropsinidae
Nummofallotia sp.
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Idalina sp.
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Miliolidae
Pyrgo sp. Defrance 1824
Lepitorbitoididae
Daviesina sp.
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pamiroseriidae
Actinastraea sp. (d'Orbigny 1849)
    = Ceriostella sp. Roniewicz and Stanley 1998
Kiessling 2014
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Placosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Diploctenium sp. Goldfuss 1827
Pachygyra sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Cunnolitidae
Cunnolites sp. Gagnebin 1772
abundant specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agatheliidae
Agathelia sp. Reuss 1854
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhaidae indet. Gray 1850
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834
Gastropoda - Cassiopidae
Cassiope sp. Coquand 1865
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonellidae
Actaeonella sp. (d'Orbigny 1843)
original and current combination Acteonella
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Trochactaeon sp. Meek 1863
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Neritidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Vaccinites spp.
Hippurites spp.
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Lapeirousia sp. Bayle 1878
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Plagioptychus sp. Matheron 1842
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster sp. Agassiz 1836
unclassified
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944
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]