Christina Horizont Hallstatt Austria (Permian of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.5° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 4.5° N, 27.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Alpine Salt Deposits Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray evaporite

• In German: Die alpinern Salzlager erstrecken sich in Oestereich von Bad Aussee bis Hallein-Berchtesgarden, gebunden an der Hallstaetter facies.
• In German: Kernsalz aus dem grauem Kerngebirge.

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

Primary reference: R. Potonie and W. Klaus. 1954. Einige Sporengattungen des alpinen Salzgebirges. Geologisches Jahrbuch, Hannover 68:517-546 [C. Looy/C. Looy/C. Looy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23971: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 25.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Article used for the description of several new genera and species. Rest of the assemblage not included.
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Platysaccus papilionis podocarp
Potonie and Klaus 1954
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Pityosporites delasaucei n. sp.
Potonie and Klaus 1954
Pityosporites schaubergeri n. sp.
Potonie and Klaus 1954
Pityosporites zapfei n. sp.
Potonie and Klaus 1954