Maurach locality, Package 4 : Calcarenaceous sandstones (Cretaceous to of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.4° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 13.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gosau Group, Turonian to Turonian (93.9 - 85.8 Ma)

• Lower Gosau Subgroup

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; calcareous sandstone

• They calcarenaceous sandstones consist mainly of moderately well to well-sorted, fine to medium sand of mixed siliciclastic/bioclastic composition. The siliciclastic grains are mainly angular grains of quartz, chert and, subordinately, feldspar. The calciclastic fraction includes mollusc debris (including debris from radiolitids and hippuritids), echinoderm fragments, miliolids, diverse textulariaceans, ataxophragmiines (attached on fragments of coral sand molluscs), debris from branched corals, coralline algae

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: D. Sanders. 1996. The Upper Cretaceous near Maurach (Tyrol, Austria). Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck Band 21 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156245: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Echinoderma indet.
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet.
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
unclassified
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Mollusca indet.
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolitidae indet.
Radiolitidae indet. Gray 1848 rudist
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Hippuritidae indet.
Hippuritidae indet. Gray 1848 rudist
Foraminifera
 Textulariacea -
Textulariacea indet.
Textulariacea indet. Ehrenberg 1839
 Lituolacea - Ataxophragmiidae
Ataxophragmiidae indet.
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet.
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallinales indet., "Pseudolithothamnium album" = Polystrata alba
Corallinales indet. Silva and Johansen 1986
"Pseudolithothamnium album" = Polystrata alba Pfender 1936