Rabenkropf section,Ra 1–3 (113 cm; base covered): Early/Lower Miocene, Austria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta - Serpulimorpha
Hydroides sp.
Gastropoda - Batillariidae
Granulolabium bicinctum (Brocchi 1814)
Gastropoda - Potamididae
Terebralia duboisi (Hörnes 1856)
synonym of Terebralia bidentata
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella erronea Cossmann 1914
recombined as Turritella (Archimediella) erronea
Gastropoda - Campanilidae
Thericium europaeum (Mayer 1878)
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Neverita olla (De Serres 1829)
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhais alata
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius schoenni
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora deshayesi (Michelotti 1847)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus nux Gmelin 1791
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Acanthocardia turonica
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula gibba (Oliva 1792)
recombined as Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea menardi (Deshayes 1829)
recombined as Panopea (Panopea) menardi
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea digitalina (Eichwald 1830)
recombined as Cubitostrea digitalina
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Nonion commune
Elphidiidae
Elphidium fichtelianum
Porosononion granosum
Rotaliidae
Ammonia beccarii
see common names

Geography
Country:Austria
Coordinates: 47.6° North, 16.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.6° North, 15.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: cherty/siliceous packstone
Secondary lithology: grainstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: yellow-orange, friable, bioclastic cortoid pack-/grainstones with dense mollusc coquinas, partly forming mollusc rudstones. Aragonitic shells have been completely dissolved, but the remaining cavities allow a clear identification of the species based on silicone molds
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:180341
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-07-13 09:36:08 Last modified:2016-07-14 02:28:56
Access level:authorizer only Released:2017-01-13 09:36:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

59840. M. Harzhauser, J. Peckmann, D. Birgel, E. Draganits, O. Mandic, D. Theobalt, and J. Huemer. 2014. Stromatolites in the Paratethys Sea during the Middle Miocene climate transition as witness of the Badenian salinity crisis. Facies 60:429-444 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]