©Erkudok Institut Gmunden; download unter www.biologiezentrum.at BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND PALAEOENVIRONMENT OF THE LOWER GOSAU SUBGROUP OF EISENBACH BROOK IN SALZKAMMERGUT (UPPER AUSTRIA) Lenka Hradecká(1), Harald Lobitzer(2), Franz Ottner(3), Felix Schlagintweit(4), Marcela Svobodová(5), István Szente(6), Lilian Švábenická(1) and Irene Zorn(7) 1)
[email protected], Czech Geological Survey, Klárov 3, CZ-118 21 Praha 1, Czech Republic, 2)
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[email protected], Museum of Natural History, Faculty of Sciences, Eötvös University, Pázmány P. sétány 1/c, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary, 7)
[email protected], Geologische Bundesanstalt, Neulinggasse 38, A-1030 Wien, Austria. ABSTRACT/ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Silty fossiliferous grey marls, including „black shales“, with subordiate sandstone and marly limestone intercalations dominate the sequence of the Eisenbach Lower Gosau Subgroup. Samples from Eisenbach are generally poor of foraminifers without stratigraphic significance. Only the occurrence of Marginotruncana schneegansi in sample EB 8 gives evidence to include this assemblage to planktonic zone Marginotruncana schneegansi sensu Robaszynski and Caron (1995). The foraminiferal assemblages from other samples belong, by the character of assemblage, to the Turonian-Coniacian. Shallow-water condition of open sea with the influence of boreal realm (presence of agglutinated species Gaudryina, Dorothia, etc.) is characteristic for the environment of all studied samples.