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Vaccinites vesiculosus (Woodward, 1855)
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By FranzBernhard
Taxonomy
Rudist
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Hippuritoida
Family: Hippuritidae
Genus: Vaccinites
Species: Vaccinites vesiculosus
Author Citation (Woodward, 1855)
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Cretaceous
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Late
International Age: Campanian
Stratigraphy
Gosau group
St. Bartholomä Formation
Provenance
Collector: Franz Bernhard
Date Collected: 01/20/2018
Acquired by: Field Collection
Dimensions
Width: 70 mm
Location
St. Bartholomä
Western Styria
Styria
Austria
- an3947
- austria
- campanian
- eastern alps
- gosau basin of kainach - st. bartholomä
- gosau group
- polished slab
- st. bartholomä formation
- styria
- vaccinites
- vesiculosus
Comments
Apical view of a polished cross section of the right (lower) valve of Vaccinites vesiculosus from the St. Bartholomä-Formation of the Gosau basin of Kainach - St. Bartholomä in western Styria, Austria. Typical are the slender L-pillar (at ca. 12:00), the round P1-pillar with a very slender stem (at ca. 2:00) and the spatula-shaped P2-piller, also with very slender steem (at ca. 3:00).
For specimens like this, names like Hippurites styriacus und Hippurites carinthiacus were also in use.
The specimen is from a small scree in a small, abandoned marl quarry, located in the eastern part of Kalchberg, southwest of St. Bartholomä (Point 25 in my own documentation).
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