Rosenberg quarry, coral carpet facies (Miocene of Austria)

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

• 1.5 mthick coral rudstones and bafflestones dominated by up to 20 cm long and 1 cm thick phaceloid 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 146231: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 18.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Leptoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
unclassified
  -
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textulariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838
 Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Rotaliina - Bolivinidae
Bolivina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida -
Miliolida indet. Lankester 1885
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Sphaerogypsina sp. Galloway 1933
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallinales indet. Silva and Johansen 1986