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CRETACEOUS RESEARCH
Volume 27, Issue 6, Pages 743-753Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2006.01.002
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Rhenodanubian Flysch Zone; Albian; Cenomanian; Dinoflagellates; Foraminifera; nannofossils
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In the Rhenodanubian Flysch Zone of Austria, between the Aptian-Albian Gault Flysch and the Cenomanian-Turonian Reiselsberg Formation, an interval with predominant red shales (Untere Bunte Schiefer) occurs. In the Oberaschau section near Attersee (Upper Austria) a ca. 18-m-thick interval of alternating red and grey shales and marlstones with minor sandstones is present. Thin sandstone intercalations are interpreted as distal turbidites. Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages indicate the Litosphaeridium siphoniphorum Zone. The concurrent presence of Litosphaeridium siphoniphorum and Ovoidinium verrucosum in all samples allows a correlation to the lower part of this zone, thus defining a Late Albian-Early Cenomanian age. Based on foraminifera, the red beds can be assigned to the topmost Rotalipora appenninica Zone and the Rotalipora globotruncanoides Zone due to the presence of small morphotypes of the index taxa. Nannofossils indicate standard zones CC9/UC0 throughout the red interval, defined by the first occurrence of Eiffellithus turriseiffelii, and UC1 above the red shales. Based on these multistratigraphic data, a latest Albian-Early Cenomanian age can be inferred. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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