The Schönleiten Formation is a geological formation in
Austria. Part of the
Gosau Group
The Gosau Group (German: ''Gosau-Gruppe'') is a geological stratigraphic group in Austria, Germany and western Slovakia whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous to Eocene.Höfling, 1985McCann, 2008 It is exposed in numerous sporadic isolated ...
it was deposited during the later
Turonian of the
Cretaceous period. It primarily consists of grey, weathered yellow shales and dense sandstone, with coal bearing shales near the base. The remains of indeterminate frogs, snakes,
Tethysaurines, crocodylians and the teeth of cf. ''
Paronychodon'' and other indeterminate theropod dinosaurs are known from the formation.
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Geologic formations of Austria
Upper Cretaceous Series of Europe
Turonian Stage
Shale formations
Sandstone formations
Coal formations
Coal in Austria