The Ramsau Dolomite is a

dolomitic Dolomite () is an anhydrous carbonate mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate, ideally The term is also used for a sedimentary carbonate rock composed mostly of the mineral dolomite (see Dolomite (rock)). An alternative name sometimes ...

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in the

Northern Limestone Alps The Northern Limestone Alps (), also called the Northern Calcareous Alps, are the ranges of the Eastern Alps north of the Central Eastern Alps located in Austria and the adjacent Bavarian lands of southeastern Germany. The distinction from the ...

, of

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and of

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. It is a unit of the

Wetterstein Limestone The Wetterstein Formation is a regional geologic formation of the Northern Limestone Alps and Western Carpathians extending from southern Bavaria, Germany in the west, through northern Austria to northern Hungary and western Slovakia in the east ...

found in the Limestone Alps. It preserves

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dating back to the

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stage of the

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The formation has provided fossils of: ;Bivalves * '' Cornucardia hornigii'' * '' Daonella (Arzelella) indica'' * '' Katosira bavarica'' * '' Neomegalodon (Rossiodus) stoppanii'' ;Gastropods * '' Omphaloptycha rosthorni'' * '' ?Coelostylina sp.''

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* G. Tichy. 1980. Gastropoden und Bivalven aus dem karnischen Ramsaudolomit südlich von Bad Reichenhall (Oberbayern, Bundesrepublik Deutschland) astropods and bivalves from the Carnian Ramsau Dolomite south of Bad Reichenhall (Upper Bavaria, Germany) Geologisch-Palaeontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck 9(6):221-238 * E. Kittl. 1912. Materialen zu einer Monographie der Halobiidae und Monotidae der Trias onograph on the Halobiidae and Monotidae of the Triassic Resultate der Wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees, II Band: Paläontologie der Umgebung des Balatonsees 1(4):1-229 Ramsau Dolomite Triassic System of Europe Triassic Germany Carnian Stage Dolomite formations Shallow marine deposits Bavaria Geology of the Alps Northern Limestone Alps Geologic formations of Germany

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