Atzl Reef, Interval 3, Brandenberg, Austria (Cretaceous of Austria)

Also known as Reef 1275

Where: Austria (47.5° N, 11.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 13.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Unnamed Formation, Early/Lower Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified floatstone and lithified grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. Sanders and R. C. Baron-Szabo. 1997. Coral-rudist bioconstructions in the Upper Cretaceous Haidach section (Northern Calcaerous Alps, Austria). Facies 36:69-90 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24267: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 04.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Polystrata alba Pfender 1936
listed as Ethelia
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Vaccinites sulcatus Defrance 1821 rudist
 Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Plagioptychus sp. Matheron 1842 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolitidae indet. Gray 1848 rudist
Radiolites sp. Lamarck 1801 rudist
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835