Gosau Basin, Gosau Beds (Cretaceous of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.6° N, 13.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Gosau Group, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• "Gosau Beds"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified marl

• marls with a rich coral fauna

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Flügel. 1969. Hydrozoen mit circumlamellarer Mikrostruktur aus den Gosau-Schichten (Senon) des Gosau-Beckens (Oberösterreich/Salzburg) [Hydrozoa with circumlamellar microstructure from the Gosau beds (Senonian) of the Gosau basin (Upper Austria/Salzburg)]. Verhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt (2)126-132 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62197: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Actinostromarianinidae
? Actinostromarianina beauvaisi n. sp.