Where: Austria (48.4° N, 16.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 15.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Waschberg Formation, Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Primary reference: O. Kühn. 1966. Eozänkorallen aus Österreich [Eocene corals from Austria]. Sitzungsberichte Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse I 175:317-355 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124305: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Montastrea bachmayeri n. sp. Kühn 1966 stony coral
Montastrea rudis Reuss 1848 stony coral | |
Pattalophyllia cf. leymeriei stony coral | |
"Stylocoenia bistellata" = Astrocoenia bistellata
"Stylocoenia bistellata" = Astrocoenia bistellata Catullo 1856 stony coral | |
Leptoria angigyra Reuss 1848 stony coral
Leptoria reticulata Reuss 1848 stony coral | |
Favia costata d'Achiardi 1875 stony coral | |
Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral | |
"Pattalophyllia cyclolitoides" = Nicaeotrochus cyclolitoides
"Pattalophyllia cyclolitoides" = Nicaeotrochus cyclolitoides Bellardi 1847 stony coral |