Ammonitico Rosso limestone 10, Section KB1-A, Steinmühl Fm: Late/Upper Berriasian, Austria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa - Calpionellida
Lorenziella hungarica
Protozoa
Cadosina minuta
Stomiosphaera wanneri
unclassified
Patellina sp. Williamson 1858
Nodosariata - Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Dentalina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Nodosariata - Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
Ammodiscidae
Glomospirella sp. Plummer 1945
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
? Oppelia sp.
Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras sp. Suess 1865
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/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Berriasian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 1
Key time interval:Late/Upper Berriasian
Age range of interval:140.60000 - 139.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Steinmühl
Local section:KB1-A Local bed:0.7 m
Local order:bottom to top
Regional section:Ternberg
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: decimetre to centimetre bedded; Ammonite Zonation: Boissieri zone; Capionellid Zonation: Calpionellopsis zone, Oblonga subzone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:condensed,red lithified "limestone"
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
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:60202
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:T. Schossleitner Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2006-05-06 05:58:45 Last modified:2006-05-06 09:05:49
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-06 05:58:45
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]