The Gosau Group (

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: ''Gosau-Gruppe'') is a geological

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and western

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whose strata date back to the

Late Cretaceous The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after ''creta'', ...

Eocene The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...

.Höfling, 1985McCann, 2008 It is exposed in numerous sporadic isolated basins within the

Northern Calcareous Alps The Northern Limestone Alps (german: Nördliche Kalkalpen), 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 ...

. It is divided into two subgroups, the Lower Gosau Subgroup which dates from the Turonian to Campanian, approximately 90 to 75 Ma and the Upper Gosau Subgroup which dates to the Santonian to Eocene, about 83.5 to 50 Ma. The formations within each subunit vary significantly between basins. The sequence is largely marine, but the

Grünbach Formation The Grünbach Formation is an Austrian geological formation that dates to the lower Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous. it forms part of the Gosau Group, and represents a marine regression event, representing a coastal/brackish environment, bein ...

represents a terrestrial deposit. Many of the units of the group are fossiliferous, typically providing marine fossils such as ammonites, though terrestrial remains including those of dinosaurs are known from the

and Schönleiten Formation.

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Among others, the following fossils have been described from the Gosau Group:Gosau Group
at Fossilworks.orgLower Gosau Group
at Fossilworks.org

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* * * * * * * {{cite LSA , last=Wagreich , first=Michael , last2=Decker , first2=Kurt , year=2001 , title=Sedimentary tectonics and subsidence modelling of the type Upper Cretaceous Gosau Basin (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria) , url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225128458_Sedimentary_tectonics_and_subsidence_modelling_of_the_type_Upper_Cretaceous_Gosau_Basin_Northern_Calcareous_Alps_Austria , journal= International Journal of Earth Sciences , volume=90 , pages=714–726 , accessdate=2020-04-02 Geologic groups of Europe Geologic formations of Austria Geologic formations of Germany Geologic formations of Slovakia Upper Cretaceous Series of Europe Campanian Stage Maastrichtian Stage Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary Paleocene Series of Europe Danian Stage Selandian Stage Thanetian Stage Eocene Series of Europe Ypresian Stage Geology of the Alps Limestone Alps Northern Limestone Alps

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