Gosau Group

Gosau Formation
Stratigraphic range: Campanian[1]
Type Stratigraphic Group
Location
Country  Austria

The Gosau Group is a geological Stratigraphic Group in Lower Austria whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous.[2] Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the group.[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaurs of the Gosau Formation
Genus Species Presence Notes Images

Crataeomus[1]

C. lepidophorus[1]

Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.[1]

Later found to be synonymous with Struthiosaurus austriacus.[1]
Rhabdodon

C. pawlowitschii[1]

Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.[1]

Later found to be synonymous with Struthiosaurus austriacus in partim.[1]

Danubiosaurus[1]

D. anceps[1]

Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.[1]

Later found to be indeterminate ankylosaurian and Struthiosaurus austriacus remains in partim.[1] "Indeterminate fragments."[3]

Hoplosaurus[1]

H. ischyrus[1]

Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.[1]

Later found to be synonymous with Struthiosaurus austriacus.[1]

Leipsanosaurus[1]

L. noricus[1]

Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.[1]

Later found to be synonymous with Struthiosaurus austriacus.[1]

Mochlodon[1]

M. suessi[1]

Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.[1]

A rhabdodontid iguanodont.

Pleuropeltus[1]

P. suessi[1]

Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.[1]

Later found to be synonymous with Struthiosaurus austriacus in partim.[1]

Rhadinosaurus[1]

R. alcinus[1]

Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.[1]

Possible indeterminate ankylosaur remains.[1]

Struthiosaurus[1]

S. austriacus[1]

Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.[1]

Megalosaurus[1]

M. pannoniensis[1]

Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.[1]

Later found to be indeterminate theropod remains.[1]

Ornithocheiridae indet.[4][5]

Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous, Europe)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 588-593. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
  2. ↑ McCann, T. (2008). The Geology of Central Europe- Volume 2 Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Bath: Geological Society London. ISBN 978-1862392656.
  3. ↑ "Table 17.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 367.
  4. ↑ http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12007/1/zitteliana_2008_b28_05.pdf
  5. ↑ Federico L. Agnolin and David Varricchio (2012). "Systematic reinterpretation of Piksi barbarulna Varricchio, 2002 from the Two Medicine Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Western USA (Montana) as a pterosaur rather than a bird" (PDF). Geodiversitas 34 (4): 883–894. doi:10.5252/g2012n4a10.


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