Karwendel, Austria (Triassic of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.4° N, 11.4° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 23.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Steinalm Formation, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• Inner ramp setting

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: T. Rüffer and V. Zamparelli. 1997. Facies and biota of Anisian to Carnian carbonate platforms in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Tyrol and Bavaria). Facies 37:115-136 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45426: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 22.10.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Polyphysaceae
 Dasycladales - Triploporellaceae
Foraminifera
  -
"Ophtalmidium sp." = Ophthalmidium
"Ophtalmidium sp." = Ophthalmidium Kübler and Zwingli 1870
 Lagenina - Ichthyolariidae
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Textulariina - Hippocrepinidae
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
  -
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
 Miliolida - Meandrospiridae
Turriglomina mesotriasica Koehn-Zaninetti 1968
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Nodosaria sp. Lamarck 1812