Garschella Fm - Klaus-Plattenwald, Vorarlberg (Cretaceous of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.4° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 30.2° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Garschella Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: surface (float),

• COLLECTORS: H.A. Kollmann and historic authors (notably Vacek, 1879, Baumberger and Fussenegger, 1933, and Heim et al. 1934). REPOSITORY: Collections reposited in the Vorarlberger Naturschau, Geologische Bundesantalt, Bayerische Staatssammulung fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Hungarian Geological Survey, and Museum National d'Historie Naturelle, Paris.

Primary reference: R. C. Baron-Szabo. 2017. Scleractinian corals from the upper Aptian–Albian of the Garschella Formation of central Europe (western Austria; eastern Switzerland): The Albian. Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 157(1-4):241-260 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193916: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, but not including (or mentioning) other groups. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, modern nomenclature, and subgeneric and species-level designations.
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
Stephanophyllia plattenwaldensis Baron-Szabo 2017 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Bathycyathus laevigatus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral