Also known as Austernbank

Where: Upper Austria, Austria (48.3° N, 14.3° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° N, 11.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Linz Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• The Oligocene part of the Linz Formation at the Plesching section attains a thickness of 6-8 metres. Coarse sand directly overlies the crystalline bedrock. In the basal part of the log occurs an oyster bed of up to 50 cm thickness. Upsection follows mollusc-bearing sand with thin intercalations of sandstone. Dated as Early Egerian=upper Chatian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Lists obtained from previous accounts and material obtained from collections at Inst. of Pal. Vienna, Geol. Surv. Austria Vienna, and Mus. Nat. Hist. Vienna.

Primary reference: M. Harzhauser and O. Mandic. 2001. Late Oligocene gastropods and bivalves from the Lower and Upper Austrian Molasse Basin. Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Schriftenreihe der Erdwissenschaftlichen Komimissionen 14:671-795 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55237: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.09.2005

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