ammonites
Hochalm TH21 (Triassic of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.0° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 16.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hochalm Member (Koessen Formation), Rhaetian (205.6 - 201.6 Ma)

• Vandaites sturzenbaumi Zone, Hochalm Member, Unit 3

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal floatstone

• 30 cm-thick biomicritic poorly/moderately sorted and loosely packed floatstone with coral debris and brachiopods, prsent within a carbonate-rich interval

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: A. Tomasovych. 2006. Linking taphonomy to community-level abundance: insights into compositional fidelity of the Upper Triassic shell concentrations (Eastern Alps). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 235:355-381 [F. Fursich/A. Tomasovych] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61134: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Adam Tomasovych on 30.05.2006