Melk/Wachberg [Melk Formation]: Chattian, Austria
collected by Roetzel
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Potamididae
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Tympanotonos margaritaceus
(Brocchi 1814)
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F category | ||||||
| recombined as Mesohalina margaritaceus | |||||||
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Gastropoda
- Batillariidae
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Granulolabium plicatum
(Bruguiére 1792)
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F category | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Euspira cf. helicina
(Brocchi 1814)
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F category | ||||||
| original and current combination Nerita helicina | |||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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Euthriofusus cf. szontaghi
Noszky 1936
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F category | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Trochidae
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Jujubinus aff. multicingulatus
(Sandberger 1860)
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F category | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Arcticidae
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Arctica rotundata
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F category | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Macrocallista beyrichi
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R category | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Habecardium tenuisulcatum
Nyst 1836
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R category | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Mytilus (Crenomytilus) haidingeri
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R category | ||||||
| original and current combination Crenomytilus | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Crassostrea fimbriata
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R category | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Austria |
| Coordinates: | 48.2° North, 15.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.3° North, 14.2° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Chattian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Melk | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHY: From the Melk Formation, which conformably overlies the Peilach Formation. AGE: Late Egerian age is inferred for the Melk Formation, based on it immediately overlying the Peilach Formation. Assigned here to the Chattian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From layer 9 of Roetzel (1983). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,sideritic,yellow lithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Yellowish sand with abundant concretions, limonitic. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of preservation as casts and moulds. | |
| Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Reflects littoral to shallow sublittoral conditions. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,mold/impression,concretion |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | very poor |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | NHMW |
| Collectors: | Roetzel |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Collected by Roetzel (1980's). REPOSITORY: Inst. of Pal. Vienna, Geol. Surv. Austria Vienna, and Mus. Nat. Hist. Vienna. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGEL Exhaustive for Mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Nomenclature follows modern usage, with revisions and new taxonomic descriptions in present manuscript. KEY: r - rare; f - frequent; a - very abundant. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 77736 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-01-17 22:21:01 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-01-17 22:21:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14687. | M. Harzhauser and O. Mandic. 2001. Late Oligocene gastropods and bivalves from the Lower and Upper Austrian Molasse Basin. Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Schriftenreihe der Erdwissenschaftlichen Komimissionen 14:671-795 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] |