Where: Austria (47.6° N, 13.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 15.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hochmoos Formation (Gosau Group), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous marl
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: R. Höfling. 1985. Faziesverteilung und Fossilvergesellschaftungen im karbonatischen Flachwassser-Milieu der alpinen Oberkreide (Gosau-Formation) [Facies and fossils from the Upper Cretaceous carbonate shallow water deposits of the Eastern Alps (Gosau Formation)]. Münchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, A 3:1-241 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74490: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polycystina | |
cf. Lithostrobus sp. Bütschli 1882 | |
Cenosphaera sp. Ehrenberg 1854 | |
Foraminifera | |
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824 | |
Gaudryina sp. d'Orbigny 1839 | |
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Triloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Foraminifera | |
Rotalia trochidiformis Lamarck 1804 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Cerithium" furcatum cerith snail | |
Pirenella muensteri horn snail | |
Echinoidea | |
Spatangus sp. Gray 1825 heart urchin |