Schrambach Formation Explained

Schrambach Formation
Type:	Formation
Age:	Berriasian-Barremian
Period:	Hauterivian
Prilithology:	Limestone
Otherlithology:	Marl
Namedfor:	Schrambach
Region:	Ternberg Bavaria
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Coordinates:	47.9°N 14.4°W
Paleocoordinates:	31°N 23.1°W
Extent:	Northern Limestone Alps

The Schrambach Formation is a geologic formation in the Northern Limestone Alps of Austria and Germany. It preserves fossils dating back to the Early Cretaceous period.^[1]

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Austria
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Germany

Further reading

• A. Lukeneder and D. Rehakova. 2004. Lower Cretaceous Section of the Ternberg Nappe (Northern Calcareous Alps, Upper Austria): facies-changes, biostratigraphy and paleoecology. Geologica Carpathica 55(3):227-237
• A. Lukeneder. 2003. The Karsteniceras level: Dysoxic ammonoid beds within the Early Cretaceous (Barremian, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria). Facies 49(1):87-100
• A. Lukeneder and K. Tanabe. 2002. In situ finds of aptychi in the Barremian of the Alpine Lower Cretaceous (Northern Calcareous Alps, Upper Austria). Cretaceous Research 23:15-24
• T. Steiger. 1992. Systematik, Stratigraphie und Palökologie der Radiolarien des Oberjura-Unterkreide-Grenzbereiches im Osterhorn-Tirolikum (Nördliche Kalkalpen, Salzburg und Bayern). Zitteliana 19:1-188

External links

• Web site: Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database. ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database)). 17 December 2021.

Notes and References

1. https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Schrambach&group_formation_member=Schrambach Schrambach Formation