The Pielach Formation is a geologic formation in Lower Austria, Austria. It preserves fossils dating back to the Chattian stage (late Kiscellian to early Egerian) of the Oligocene period. The formation unconformably overlies basement rock, and is overlain by the Melk Formation.
| Pielach Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Chattian (late Kiscellian-early Egerian) | |
| Type | Formation |
| Underlies | Melk Formation |
| Overlies | Basement |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Mudstone, sandstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 48°12′N 15°12′E / 48.2°N 15.2°E |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 46°12′N 14°00′E / 46.2°N 14.0°E |
| Region | Lower Austria |
| Country |  Austria |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Pielach |
  Pielach Formation (Austria) | |
Fossil content
editThe formation has provided fossils of:[1][2]
- Bivalves
- Acanthocardia bojorum
- Acanthocardia bokorum
- Angulus (Peronidia)
- Anomia ephippium
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) carinata
- Cordiopsis incrassata
- Crassostrea fimbriata
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) rotundata
- Gari protracta
- Isognomon (Hippochaeta) maxillatus
- Lucinella divaricata
- Lutraria (Lutraria) sanna
- Macrocallista beyrichi
- Mytilopsis basteroti
- Mytilus (Crenomytilus) aquitanicus
- Polymesoda subarata
- Saxolucina heberti
- Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii
- Thracia ventricosa
- Teredo sp.
- Cardiidae indet.
- Gastropods
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Pielach Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Harzhauser & Mandic, 2001
Bibliography
edit- Harzhauser, M.; Mandic, O. (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