Ammonitico Rosso limestone 7, Section KB1-A, Steinmühl Fm: Middle Berriasian, Austria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
? Oppelia sp.
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865
Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras sp. Suess 1865
Protozoa - Spirotrichia
Remaniella duranddelgai
Remaniella cadischiana
Remaniella filipescu
Protozoa - Calpionellida
Calpionella alpina
Calpionella elliptica
Calpionellopsis simplex
see common names

Geography
Country:Austria
Coordinates: 47.9° North, 14.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.1° North, 23.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Berriasian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 1
Key time interval: Middle Berriasian
Age range of interval: 142.7 - 140.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Steinmühl
Local section:KB1-A Local bed:4.1 m
Local order:bottom to top
Regional section:Ternberg
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: decimetre to centimetre bedded; Ammonite Zonation: Occitanica zone; Capionellid Zonation: Calpionella zone, Elliptica subzone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:condensed,red lithified wackestone
Lithology description: decimetre to centimetre bedded compact to nodular, red ('Ammonitico rosso' type) condensed pelagic limestone
Environment:basinal (carbonate)
Geology comments: KB1-A crosses the western part of the east-west striking Losenstein Syncline, which is situated in the southernmost part of the Ternberg Nappe, and is the last Syncline to the north filled with Lower Cretaceous Sediments. KB1-A situated directly on the border between Ternberg Nappe and Reichraming Nappe
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils,some microfossils
Collection methods:bulk,acetic,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:0.063 Maximum sieve size:0.500
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: Material is deposited in the paleontological collections of the Museum of Natural History (NHMW), Vienna, Austria; data on macrofossils is given but assignement to specific beds only partially possible
Metadata
Database number:60199
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:T. Schossleitner Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2006-05-06 05:54:16 Last modified:2006-05-06 09:51:37
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-06 05:54:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
17268. A. Lukeneder and D. Rehakova. 2004. Lower Cretaceous Section of the Ternberg Nappe (Northern Calcareous Alps, Upper Austria): facies-changes, biostratigraphy and paleoecology. Geologica Carpathica 55(3):227-237 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]