Mühlbach-Mösl, Brandenberg: Early/Lower Santonian, Austria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Echinocorys sp. Leske 1778
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster sp. Agassiz 1836
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Eupachydiscus isculensis (Redtenbacher 1873)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Texanites quinquenodosus (Redtenbacher 1837)
1 specimen
recombined as Texanites (Texanites) quinquenodosus
unclassified
Zoophycos sp. (Massalongo 1855)
see common names

Geography
Country:Austria
Coordinates: 47.5° North, 11.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.4° North, 14.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Santonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Santonian
Age range of interval:86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Gosau
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Santonian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: calcareous marl
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Spatial orientation:random
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Bioerosion:frequent
Encrustation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Collection methods:mechanical,peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:173328
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-09-17 05:47:45 Last modified:2022-03-08 14:05:03
Access level:the public Released:2015-09-17 05:47:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

56350. D. Herm, E. G. Kauffman, and J. Wiedmann. 1979. The age and depositional environment of the "Gosau"-Group (Coniacian-Santonian), Brandenberg/Tirol, Austria. Mitteilungen der Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie (19)27-92 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]