Scharrergraben, Markt Piesting (Cretaceous of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.9° N, 16.1° E: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 17.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gosau Group, Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• The age is Late Santonian according to Sumesberger (1997), who reported Placenticeras polyopsis (Dujardin) from beds just below the coral layer.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, sandy marl

• fossiliferous sandy marls with a rich coral fauna, interbedded between marls and sandstones with conglomerate intercalations

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NHMW

Primary reference: K. Zágoršek and A. Kroh. 2003. Cretaceous Bryozoa from Scharrergraben (Santonian, Gosau Group, Eastern Alps). Geologica Carpathica 54(6):395-407 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61374: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.06.2006

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Taxonomic list

Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
Onychocella michaudiana d'Orbigny 1850
Onychocella reussi Prantl 1938
Onychocella cyclostoma Goldfuss 1826
Onychocella depressa von Hagenow 1851
 Cheilostomata - Antroporidae
 Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
 Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Biflustra cf. teres Novák 1877
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Lichenoporidae
 Cyclostomata - Oncousoeciidae
 Cyclostomata - Eleidae
Reptomultelea sp. d'Orbigny 1853
aff. Elea lamellosa
 Cyclostomata - Diastoporidae
"Berenicea" sp. Lamouroux 1821
 Cyclostomata - Petaloporidae
? Reteporidea sp. D'Orbigny 1849
? Petalopora sp. Lonsdale 1850
 Cyclostomata - Cytididae
Osculipora truncata Goldfuss 1826