Where: Austria (46.7° N, 15.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.1° N, 15.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks
•is exposed at the 7 m high and 100 m wide exposed coral buildup CB1,
•which rests on a structural high. It is characterized by centimeter-sized quartz and crystalline pebbles between the corals
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: M. Reuter, W. E. Piller, and C. Erhart. 2012. A Middle Miocene carbonate platform under silici-volcaniclastic sedimentation stress (Leitha Limestone, Styrian Basin, Austria) — Depositional environments, sedimentary evolution and palaeoecology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 350–352 198-211 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 146225: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 18.06.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Florideophyceae | |
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Corallinales indet. Silva and Johansen 1986 | |
| Foraminifera | |
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Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
| Globothalamea | |
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Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808 | |
| Foraminifera | |
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Textulariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838 | |
| Echinoidea | |
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Clypeaster sp. Lamarck 1801 sand dollar | |
| Polychaeta | |
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Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Montastraea sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
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Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral | |
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Mussismilia sp. Ortmann 1890 stony coral | |
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Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |