Pucking (Miocene of Austria)

Where: Austria (48.2° N, 14.2° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° N, 12.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: M1 foram zone, Ebelsberg Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: The silty clays are part of the Ebelsberg Formation (Krenmayr and Schnabel 2006) and belong to the North Alpine Foreland Basin. AGE: upper Egerian stage (= Aquitanian) and correspond to the nannoplankton zone NN2 (Gregorova et al. 2009; Grunert et al. 2010a).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, silty, sandy claystone

• Depth estimates for the investigated deposits are not precise due to the wide range of bathymetric distributions of the revealed benthic foraminifers. The common occurrence of Haplophragmoides indicates a water depth greater than 100 m (Murray, 2006). The scarce occurrence of the shallow-water taxa Ammonia and Elphidium is interpreted as transport from the coast. Furthermore, recent tenuitellids are exclusively described from offshore sites in basins deeper than 100 m (Li and McGowran, 1998) and from oceanic environments (Li et al., 1992). This interpretation is in good agreement with an outer shelf to slope position for the Ebelsberg Formation suggested by Wagner (1998).
• LITHOLOGY: laminated sandy and silty clay. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite, original phosphate

Reposited in the NHMW

• COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Natural History Museum Vienna (Austria).

Primary reference: R. Gregorova, O. Schultz, M. Harzhauser, A. Kroh, and S. Coric. 2009. A giant early Miocene sunfish from the North Alpine foreland basin (Austria) and its implication for molid phylogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(2):359-371 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99160: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.10.2010, edited by Austin Hendy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Foraminifera
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Glandulonodosariidae
Neugeborina longiscata1 d'Orbigny 1846
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
 Nodosariida - Stilostomellidae
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp.1 Lamarck 1804
Lenticulina inornata1 d'Orbigny 1846
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Globulina gibba1 d'Orbigny 1832
 Polymorphinida - Plectofrondiculariidae
Foraminifera
  -
 Globigerinaceae - Heterohelicidae
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Asterigerinatidae
 Rotaliida - Cancrisidae
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
 Rotaliida - Rosalinidae
? Neoconorbina sp.1 Hofker 1951
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
 Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
 Rotaliida - Alabaminidae
 Rotaliida - Anomalinidae
Parrelloides sp.1 Hofker 1956
Foraminifera
  -
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiellidae
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
  -
 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
  -
? Budashevaella sp.1, "Marginulina subregularis" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)1, "Marginulina sp." = Cristellaria (Marginulina)1
"Marginulina subregularis" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)1
"Marginulina sp." = Cristellaria (Marginulina)1 d'Orbigny 1826
  - Chilostomellidae
  -
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinitidae
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
  -
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
 Textulariina -
Semivulvulina sp.1 d'Orbigny 1846
 Astrorhizacea - Bathysiphonidae
 Lituolacea - Ammosphaeroidinidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Cycloforina sp.1 Luczkowska 1972
Sigmoilinita sp.1 Gherke 1938
Foraminifera
  -
 Rotaliina - Cassidulinidae
 Rotaliina - Turrilinidae
 Chilostomellacea - Heterolepidae
 Buliminacea - Uvigerinidae
 Rotaliina -
 Discorbacea - Bagginidae
 Asterigerinacea - Epistomariidae
 Rotaliina - Fursenkoinidae
 Rotaliina -
 Rotaliina - Bolivinitidae
 Rotaliina - Bolivinidae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
  -
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia sp.1 Bronn 1838 nautiloid
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Euspira helicina1 Brocchi 1814 moon snail
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
Clio sp.1 Linnaeus 1767 snail
 Thecosomata - Limacinidae
Limacina sp.1 Bosc 1817 snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp.1 Lamarck 1799 nut clam
Thecostraca
 Scalpellomorpha - Lepadidae
Lepas sattmanni n. sp.2 Harzhauser and Schloegl 2012 barnacle
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Linthia summesbergeri1 heart urchin
Gnathostomata
  -
Chondrichthyes indet.1 Huxley 1880 cartilaginous fish
Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Odontoceti indet. Flower 1867 toothed whale
"dolphin", appears to be a eurhinodelpinid from the photograph
Aves
 Gaviiformes -
Petralca austriaca1 Mlikovsky 1987 loon
Actinopteri
 Gadiformes - Merlucciidae
 Acanthomorphata - Caproidae
 Tetraodontiformes - Molidae
Austromola angerhoferi Gregorova et al. 2009
 Perciformes - Serranidae
Serranidae indet.1 Swainson 1839 perch-like fish
 Scombriformes - Scombridae
Scombridae indet.1 Rafinesque 1815
 Syngnathiformes - Syngnathidae
 Carangiformes - Carangidae
Carangidae indet.1 Rafinesque 1815
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Clupeidae indet.1 Cuvier 1817 herring
 Life - Cystoseiraceae