Launsdorf I (Triassic of Austria)

Where: Austria (46.8° N, 14.5° E: paleocoordinates 12.5° N, 21.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Carnian according to Ros-Franch et al. (2014)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: O. Gugenberger. 1935. Die Cardita-Schichten von Launsdorf in Mittelkärnten und ihre Fauna. V. Lamellibranchiaten. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 144(1):231-252 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201956: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 13.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Cassianellidae
Hoernesiella carinthiaca n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 oyster
Hoernesiella horrida n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 oyster
Cassianella gryphaeata Münster 1841 oyster
Cassianella avicularaeformis n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 oyster
Cassianella planata n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 oyster
Cassianella launsdorfiensis n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 oyster
Cassianella symmetrica n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 oyster
Cassianella robusta n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 oyster
Cassianella gallensteini Gugenberger 1935 oyster
Cassianella angusta Bittner 1891 oyster
Cassianella bicostata n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 oyster
Cassianella angustula n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 oyster
Cassianella lineata n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 oyster
Cassianella elegantula n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 oyster
Cassianella pseudoavicularis n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Cassianella avicularis" = Gryphaea avicularis
"Cassianella avicularis" = Gryphaea avicularis Münster 1841 oyster
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Avicula cardiiformis" = Avicularca cardiiformis
"Avicula cardiiformis" = Avicularca cardiiformis Münster 1841 scallop
  - Aviculidae
Avicula sp. Bruguière 1791 clam
Avicula launsdorfiensis n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 clam
Avicula lineata n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 clam
Avicula kokeni Wöhrman 1892 clam
Avicula carinthiaca n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 clam
Avicula plicatostriata n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 clam
Avicula geyeri n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 clam
Avicula hallensis von Wöhrmann 1889 clam
Avicula gallensteini n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 clam
Avicula kautzkyi n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 clam
Avicula cf. caudata Stoppani 1857 clam
Avicula seisiana Broili 1904 clam
Avicula pannonica Bittner 1901 clam
Avicula aff. boeckhi Bittner 1901 clam
Avicula kutassyi n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 clam
Avicula caudataeformis n. sp. Gugenberger 1935 clam
Avicula bittneri Wöhrmann 1894 clam