Austriadactylus type locality near Ankerschlag: Sevatian, Austria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Austriadactylus cristatus n. gen., n. sp. Dalla Vecchia et al. 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:Austria State/province:Tyrol
Coordinates: 47.3° North, 11.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.8° North, 15.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Sevatian
Age range of interval:212.00000 - 205.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Seefelder Schichten
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Sevatian date is based upon the conodont Mockina slovakensis, see Kozur (in Wellnhofer 2003. Geol. Soc., London, Special Publications 217: 5-22) and Moix et al. (2007. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 41:282–311).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black calcareous "limestone"
Lithology description: "preserved on a slab of black calcareous laminites"
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Geology comments: "a marine, anoxic and partially hypersaline basin on a very shallow carbonate platform"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:SMNS
Taxonomic list comments:only one specimen reported, remaining fauna not discussed
Metadata
Also known as:Seefeld
Database number:68334
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-01-16 16:00:27 Last modified:2011-04-03 05:34:25
Access level:the public Released:2007-01-16 16:00:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19667.5% 55380F. M. Dalla Vecchia, R. Wild, H. Hopf and J. Reitner. 2002. A crested rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur from the Late Triassic of Austria. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(1):196-199 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]