Maurach locality, Package 2 : Conglomerate and grainstones (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: reef, buildup or bioherm; conglomerate and grainstone

• The conglomerate consists mainly of subrounded to well-rounded clasts of limestone and, subordinately, cherty limestones and chert. The limestone clasts are bioclastic grainstones and packstones, spiculitic mudstone to packstones, ooid grainstone sand, rarely, boundstones with ?demosponges, corals and Miliolacea
• Conglomerate and grainstones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 156228: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 13.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Archaeolithothamnium sp. Rothpletz 1891
Foraminifera
 Lituolacea - Nautiloculinidae
Nautiloculina sp. Mohler 1938
 Textulariacea -
Textulariacea indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
unclassified
  -
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa sp. Leach 1814 decapod
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Astrocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral