Rosenberg quarry, reef facies, coral buildup CB4 (Miocene of Austria)

Where: Austria (46.7° N, 15.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.1° N, 15.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• 4 coral buildups. They range in lateral extent from 30 to 100 m, achieve heights of up to 9 m and are surrounded by coarsegrained coralline algal-dominated skeletal limestones (pack-, float-, rudstones) with variable quantities of coral debris, rhodoliths, bryozoan colonies, foraminifers, and mollusks
• This 4 m high and a few meters wide coral buildup rests on bioturbated,

•bioclastic mollusk–corallinacean rudstones and packstones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Reuter, W. E. Piller, and C. Erhart. 2012. A Middle Miocene carbonate platform under silici-volcaniclastic sedimentation stress (Leitha Limestone, Styrian Basin, Austria) — Depositional environments, sedimentary evolution and palaeoecology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 350–352 198-211 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 146183: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 18.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Schizaster sp.
Schizaster sp. Agassiz 1835 heart urchin
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Scaphopoda
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Scaphopoda indet.
Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862 tusk shell
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pectinidae indet.
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Foraminifera indet.
 Acervulinacea - Homotrematidae
Homotrematidae indet.
Homotrematidae indet. Cushman 1927
 Biokovinacea - Charentiidae
Peneroplis sp.
Peneroplis sp. Montfort 1808
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida -
Miliolida indet.
Miliolida indet. Lankester 1885
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Borelis sp.
Borelis sp. Montfort 1808
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Soritidae indet.
Soritidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp.
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812