Hofergraben Mmb (Cretaceous of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.6° N, 13.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hofergraben Member (Hochmoos Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; silty marl

• variable relative proportions of neritic soft-substrate level-bottoms with a potentially reef-building assemblage of corals and rudists.
• sheets to mounds of colonial corals and rudists;

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. Sanders and R. Baron-Szabo. 2008. Palaeoecology of solitary corals in soft-substrate habitats: the example of Cunnolites (upper Santonian, Eastern Alps). Lethaia 41:1-14 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146295: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 21.06.2013, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster sp.
Micraster sp. Agassiz 1836 heart urchin
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Trochactaeon sp.
Trochactaeon sp. Meek 1863 snail
 Heterostropha - Acteonellidae
"Actaeonella sp." = Acteonella
"Actaeonella sp." = Acteonella d'Orbigny 1843 snail
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Neritidae indet.
Neritidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassiopidae
Cassiope sp.
Cassiope sp. Coquand 1865 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Naticidae indet.
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhaidae indet.
Aporrhaidae indet. Gray 1850 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Lapeirousia sp.
Lapeirousia sp. Bayle 1878 rudist
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Hippurites spp., Vaccinites spp.
Hippurites spp. Lamarck 1801 rudist
Vaccinites spp. Fischer 1887 rudist
 Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Plagioptychus sp.
Plagioptychus sp. Matheron 1842 rudist
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis sp.
Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cunnolitidae
Cunnolites sp.
Cunnolites sp. Gagnebin 1772 stony coral
abundant specimens
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Placosmilia sp.
Placosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Diploctenium sp., Pachygyra sp.
Diploctenium sp. Goldfuss 1827 stony coral
Pachygyra sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pamiroseriidae
Ceriostella sp.
Ceriostella sp. Roniewicz and Stanley 1998 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agatheliidae
Agathelia sp.
Agathelia sp. Reuss 1854 stony coral
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
Haplophragmoides sp.
Haplophragmoides sp. Cushman 1910
 Rotaliina - Lepitorbitoididae
Daviesina sp.
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Vidalina sp.
 Miliolida - Meandropsinidae
Nummofallotia sp.
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Pyrgo sp.
Pyrgo sp. Defrance 1824
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Quinqueloculina sp., Idalina sp.
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Foraminifera
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Goupillaudina sp.
 Textulariina - Dictyopsellidae
Dictyopsella sp.
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
Cuneolina sp.
 Ichnofossils -
Thalassinoides sp.
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944