Also known as Reef 248

Where: Austria (47.6° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 23.1° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Plassen Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• Formation name and age updated by Schlagintweit (2005)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified rudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: T. Steiger and D. Wurm. 1980. Faziesmuster oberjurassischer Plattform-Karbonate (Plassen-Kalke), Nördliche Kalkalpen, Steirisches Salzkammergut, Österreich). Facies 2:241-284 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 36223: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 19.01.2004, edited by Uta Merkel and Mihaela Krause

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