Seewarte-Kellerspitzen, Carnic Alps (Devonian to of Austria)

Also known as Reef 1368

Where: Kärnten, Austria (46.6° N, 12.9° E: paleocoordinates 30.0° S, 33.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kellergrat Reef Limestone Formation, Givetian to Givetian (387.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• up to 180 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bafflestone and lithified framestone

• coral-stromatoporoid bioherms

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: L. H. Kreutzer. 1990. Mikrofazies, Stratigraphie und Paläogeographie des Zentralkarnischen Hauptkammes zwischen Seewarte und Cellon [Microfacies, stratigraphy and paleogeography of the central Carnic Alps between Seewarte and Cellon, Austria]. Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 133(2):275-343 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 81665: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Stringocephalidae
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Anthozoa
 Rugosa - Charactophyllidae
Temnophyllum sp. Walther 1928 horn coral
 Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
Cyathophyllum sp. Goldfuss 1826 horn coral
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Pexiphyllum sp. Walther 1928 horn coral
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Acanthophyllum sp. Dybowski 1873 horn coral
Grypophyllum sp. Wedekind 1922 horn coral
 Stauriida - Spongophyllidae
Battersbyia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
Stringophyllum (Neospongophyllum) sp. Wedekind 1922 horn coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Squameoalveolites sp. Mironova 1969 tabulate coral
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora rudis stromatoporoid sponge
Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Syringostromatidae
cf. Parallelopora sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea