Burgschleinitz (Miocene of Austria)

Where: Austria (48.6° N, 15.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 15.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: O. Kühn. 1963. Korallensteinkerne im österreichischen Miozän [Coral casts from the Austrian Miocene]. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien 66:101-112 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124261: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.02.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea froehlichiana Reuss 1847 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Tarbellastraea eggenburgensis Kühn 1925 stony coral