Early Jurassic brachiopods from Kratzalpe and Tannhausberg localities near Golling (Hagengebirge Mts., Salzburg, Austria)

Geoscience Research Reports 42, 2009 (GRR for 2008), pages 238–239

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Abstract

The final determination of the brachiopod material sampled in the years 2001 and 2003 at the famous Liassic locality Kratzalpe and new outcrops near Tannhausberg (Golling area) enriched the former data and confirmed the existence of the Upper Sinemurian and Pliensbachian brachiopod assemblages. The Sinemurian yielded the usual "hierlatz-type" brachiopods. As the most characteristic species of the local Pliensbachian could be mentioned Securithyris adnethensis (Suess), Linguithyris aspasia (Zitt.), Viallithyris gozzanensis (Par.), Bakonyithyris pedemontana (Par.) and Phymatothyris cerasulum (Zitt.). The Pliensbachian Orthotoma apenninica (Can.) was ascertained here for the first time in the Northern Calcareous Alps.