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
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 | |
Nodosariata | |
Neugeborina longiscata1 d'Orbigny 1846 | |
Lenticulina sp.1 Lamarck 1804
Lenticulina inornata1 d'Orbigny 1846 | |
Globulina gibba1 d'Orbigny 1832 | |
Plectofrondicularia sp.1 Liebus 1902 | |
Foraminifera | |
Globothalamea | |
Hanzawaia boueana1, Hanzawaia hovcici1, Valvulineria complanata1, Valvulineria palmarealensis1, Valvulineria sp.1, ? Epistominella sp.1, Buccella propinqua1
Valvulineria sp.1 Cushman 1926
? Epistominella sp.1 Husezima and Maruhasi 1944 | |
? Neoconorbina sp.1 Hofker 1951 | |
Parrelloides sp.1 Hofker 1956 | |
Foraminifera | |
? 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 | |
Globigerina dubia1, Globigerina gnaucki1, Globigerina lentiana1, Globigerina officinalis1, Globigerina ottnangiensis1, Globigerina steiningeri1, Globigerina sp.1, Globigerina ouachitaensis1, Globigerina praebulloides1, Globigerina anguliofficinalis1, Globigerina cf. falconensis1, Globigerinella cf. obesa1, Globoturborotalita connecta1, Globoturborotalita woodi1
Globigerina sp.1 d'Orbigny 1826
Globigerina ouachitaensis1 Howe and Wallace 1932
Globigerina praebulloides1 Blow 1959
Globigerina anguliofficinalis1 Blow 1969
Globigerina cf. falconensis1 Blow 1959
Globigerinella cf. obesa1 Bolli 1957
Globoturborotalita woodi1 Jenkins 1960 | |
Semivulvulina sp.1 d'Orbigny 1846 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Fursenkoina acuta1 d'Orbigny 1846 | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Thecostraca | |
Lepas sattmanni n. sp.2
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Echinoidea | |
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Gnathostomata | |
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Mammalia | |
Odontoceti indet. Flower 1867 toothed whale "dolphin", appears to be a eurhinodelpinid from the photograph
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Aves | |
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Actinopteri | |
Merlucciidae indet.1 Gill 1884 | |
Austromola angerhoferi Gregorova et al. 2009 | |
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Scombridae indet.1 Rafinesque 1815 | |
Carangidae indet.1 Rafinesque 1815 | |
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