Finstergrabenwandl (Skoumal collection) (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: Damesites compactus ammonoid zone, Sandkalkbank Member (Hochmoos Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified shale

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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: collection of Peter Skoumal, Vienna

Primary reference: H. Summesberger. 1979. Eine obersantone Ammonitenfauna aus dem Becken von Gosau (Oberösterreich). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 82:109-176 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178860: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Gaudryceras mite
Gaudryceras mite Hauer 1866 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Sphenodiscidae
"Skoumalia austriaca n. gen. n. sp." = Eulophoceras austriacum
"Skoumalia austriaca n. gen. n. sp." = Eulophoceras austriacum Summesberger 1979 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Placenticeras paraplanum, Placenticeras maherndli, Stantonoceras depressum
Placenticeras paraplanum Wiedmann 1978 ammonite
Placenticeras maherndli Summesberger 1979 ammonite
Stantonoceras depressum Hyatt 1903 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Damesites compactus" = Damesites sugata, Kitchinites stenomphalus n. sp.
"Damesites compactus" = Damesites sugata Forbes 1846 ammonite
Kitchinites stenomphalus n. sp. Summesberger 1979 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Nowakites draschei
Nowakites draschei Redtenbacher 1873 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Boehmoceras krekeleri, "Boehmoceras loescheri" = Boehmoceras arculus, Baculites sp., Baculites cf. tanakai, Baculites fuchsi, Baculites cf. fuchsi
Boehmoceras krekeleri Wegner 1905 ammonite
"Boehmoceras loescheri" = Boehmoceras arculus Morton 1834 ammonite
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite
Baculites cf. tanakai Matsumoto and Obata 1963 ammonite
Baculites fuchsi Redtenbacher 1873 ammonite
Baculites cf. fuchsi Redtenbacher 1873 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
"Hyphantoceras (Madagascarites) amapondense" = Amapondella amapondense
"Hyphantoceras (Madagascarites) amapondense" = Amapondella amapondense van Hoepen 1921 ammonite