Weissachbach - Zöttbach Alm, Brandenberg (Cretaceous to of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.5° N, 11.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 14.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gosau Group, Late/Upper Coniacian to Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 83.5 Ma)

• Upper Coniacian/Lower Santonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. Herm, E. G. Kauffman, and J. Wiedmann. 1979. The age and depositional environment of the "Gosau"-Group (Coniacian-Santonian), Brandenberg/Tirol, Austria. Mitteilungen der Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie (19)27-92 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173322: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 17.09.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Durania aff. cornupastoris Des Moulins 1826 rudist
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Solgerites cf. brancoi Solger 1904 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Yubariceras gosavicum Wiedmann 1979 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Hemitissotia alpina Wiedmann 1979 ammonite