Zweikofel, Upper Pseudoschwagerina Formation, Carnic Alps (Permian of Austria)

Where: Austria (46.6° N, 13.2° E: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 24.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Pseudoschwagerina Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• open shelf
• alternation of thin to medium bedded limestones with rare clastic intercalations (quarz-rich conglomerates and sandstones)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• brachiopods, gastropods, crinoids, echinoids, foraminifers and calcareous algae reported to be present, but not listed

Primary reference: A. Ernst. 2000. Permian Bryozoans of the NW-Tethys. Facies 43:79-102 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61255: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.06.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Eridopora sp., Fistulipora sp.
Fistulipora sp. McCoy 1850
 Cystoporida - Hexagonellidae
Prismopora sp., Prismopora digitata
Prismopora digitata Crockford 1957
 Trepostomida - Dyscritellidae
Dyscritella sp.
 Cryptostomata - Carnocladiidae
Carnocladia fasciculata n. gen., Carnocladia punctata n. sp.
Carnocladia fasciculata n. gen. Ernst 2001
Carnocladia punctata n. sp. Ernst 2001
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Alternifenestella tenuiseptata, Alternifenestella aff. tenuiseptata, Alternifenestella nalivkini
Alternifenestella tenuiseptata Schulga-Nesterenko 1941
Alternifenestella aff. tenuiseptata Schulga-Nesterenko 1941
Alternifenestella nalivkini Elias and Condra 1957