Kalbling, Gesäuse, Alps, Styria (Triassic to of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.6° N, 14.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.8° N, 18.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dachstein Formation, Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone and lithified wackestone

• different microfacies of the 'Dachsteinriffkalk' could be observed; foraminifera-rich grainstones and wackestones with reefdebris

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, peel or thin section,

• Material deposited at the Institute of Paleontology, University of Erlangen

Primary reference: P. Riedel. 1990. Riffbiotope im Karn und Nor (Obertrias) der Tethys: Entwicklung, Einschnitte und Diversitätsmuster [Reef biotopes of the Carnian and Norian (Upper Triassic) in the Thetys: Development, incisions and diversitypatterns]. Ph. D. thesis - Erlangen 1-96 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60371: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 11.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladacea indet. Radoicic 1969
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Hydrozoa
  -
Hydrozoa indet. Owen 1843
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae