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
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 | |
Leptoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
unclassified | |
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Bivalvia | |
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop | |
Foraminifera | |
Textulariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838 | |
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Bolivina sp. d'Orbigny 1839 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Miliolida indet. Lankester 1885 | |
Globothalamea | |
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808 | |
Sphaerogypsina sp. Galloway 1933 | |
Florideophyceae | |
Corallinales indet. Silva and Johansen 1986 |