Where: Austria (47.6° N, 13.5° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 33.0° N, 26.6° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sandkalkbank Member (Hochmoos Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous sandstone and lithified, gray, sandy shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Extensive collections have been made by the Geological-Palaeontological Department of the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. This study is an inventory of the bivalve species collected at Bibereck.
Primary reference: A. V. Dhondt. 1987. Bivalves from the Hochmoos Formation (Gosau-Group, Oberösterreich, Austria). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie A 88:41-101 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 114268: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 12.08.2011, edited by Sabine Nürnberg
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nucula redempta nut clam
Nucula cf. stachei nut clam | |
"Nucula concinna" = Polidevcia cryptica
"Nucula concinna" = Polidevcia cryptica Waterhouse 1988 clam | |
"Inoceramus cycloides" = Platyceramus cycloides Wegner 1905 clam
Inoceramus muelleri clam
Inoceramus angustus clam | |
"Pycnodonte vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis, Ceratostreon pliciferum
"Pycnodonte vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Ceratostreon pliciferum Dujardin 1837 oyster | |
"Gervillia solenoides" = Gervillia solenoidea, Pseudoptera raricosta, Gervillaria neptuni, ? Aguileria falcata
"Gervillia solenoides" = Gervillia solenoidea Defrance 1820 oyster
Pseudoptera raricosta oyster
Gervillaria neptuni Goldfuss 1837 oyster
? Aguileria falcata oyster | |
Pinna cf. cretacea Schlotheim 1813 oyster | |
"Neithea coquandi" = Neithea (Neithea) coquandi
"Neithea coquandi" = Neithea (Neithea) coquandi Peron 1877 scallop | |
Camptonectes virgatus Nilsson 1827 scallop
Merklinia septemplicata scallop
Spondylus coquandianus scallop
Spondylus requienianus scallop | |
Plagiostoma cretaceum file clam | |
Glycymeris noricus clam | |
Limopsis calvus clam | |
Modiolus capitatus mussel
Modiolus cf. siliquus mussel
Modiolus typicus Forbes 1846 mussel
Inoperna flagellifera Forbes 1846 mussel | |
? Mutiella coarctata clam | |
? Cyprimeria discus Matheron 1843 venus clam
Pitar sensu lato matheroni venus clam
? Cyclorisma dubiosa venus clam
Legumen martinianus venus clam | |
Proveniella testacea clam | |
Icanotia impar clam | |
"Linearia costulata" = Linearis
"Linearia costulata" = Linearis tellin clam | |
Granocardium productum Sowerby 1832 cockle | |
"? Corbula angustata" = Caestocorbula angustata
"? Corbula angustata" = Caestocorbula angustata Sowerby 1832 clam | |
? Cercomya producta clam | |
Poromya frequens clam | |
Crassatella macrodonta Sowerby 1835 clam | |
Astarte similis Munster 1840 clam |