Kirchenwirt, Gosau: Late/Upper Santonian, Austria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Stantonoceras depressum (Hyatt 1903)
(1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Austria
Coordinates: 47.6° North, 13.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.1° North, 15.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Santonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Santonian Ammonoid zone: Damesites compactus
Age range of interval:86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Gosau Formation:Hochmoos Member:Sandkalkbank
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: variable relative proportions of neritic soft-substrate level-bottoms with a potentially reef-building assemblage of corals and rudists.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: G. Gapp collection, Gosau
Metadata
Database number:178915
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-05-20 21:33:29 Last modified:2016-05-20 21:33:29
Access level:the public Released:2016-05-20 21:33:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

59208. J. Wiedmann. 1978. Eine paläontologisch interessante Ammonitenfaunula aus der alpinen Gosau (Santon, Becken von Gosau, Oberösterreich). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 71:663-675 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]