Where: Austria (47.9° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 13.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gerhartsreit Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Horizon situated 1.25 m below the hiatus, which spans the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary. UC20d/CC26b biozone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, argillaceous marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by I. Feichtinger, J. Pollerspöck in 2021; reposited in the NHMW

Collection methods: chemical, peroxide

Primary reference: I. Feichtinger, G. Guinot, N. Straube, M. Harzhauser, and G. Auer, S., M. Kranner, S. Schellhorn, J. Ladwig, D. Thies, and J. Pollerspöck. 2022. Revision of the Cretaceous shark Protoxynotus (Chondrichthyes, Squaliformes) and early evolution of somniosid sharks. Cretaceous Research 140(105331) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228232: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.11.2022

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