Gosau Group

Gosau Group
Stratigraphic range: Upper Cretaceous-Eocene
Type	stratigraphic group
Sub-units	Eastern Lower Gosau Subgroup - Kreuzgraben Formation, Maiersdorf Formation, Grünbach Formation Upper Gosau Subgroup - Piesting Formation, Zweiersdorf Formation Western Lower Gosau Subgroup -Kreuzgraben Formation Streiteck Formation Grabenbach Formation Hochmoos Formation Bibereck Formation Upper Gosau Subgroup - Ressen Formation Nierental Formation Zwieselalm Formation
Overlies	Unconformity with folded and faulted Permian to Lower Cretaceous rocks, depending on the basin
Location
Region	Europe
Country	Austria Slovakia

The Gosau Group (German: Gosau Gruppe) is a geological stratigraphic group in Austria and western Slovakia whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous to Eocene. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the group. It is divided into two subgroups, the Lower Gosau Subgroup which dates from 90-75 ma and the Upper Gosau Subgroup which dates from 83.5-50 ma, the sequence is largely marine, but the Grünbach Formation represents a terrestrial deposit.

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaurs of the Gosau Formation
Genus	Species	Presence	Notes	Images
Crataeomus	C. lepidophorus	Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.	Later found to be synonymous with Struthiosaurus austriacus.	Rhabdodon
	C. pawlowitschii	Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.	Later found to be synonymous with Struthiosaurus austriacus in partim.
Danubiosaurus	D. anceps	Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.	Later found to be indeterminate ankylosaurian and Struthiosaurus austriacus remains in partim. "Indeterminate fragments."
Hoplosaurus	H. ischyrus	Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.	Later found to be synonymous with Struthiosaurus austriacus.
Leipsanosaurus	L. noricus	Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.	Later found to be synonymous with Struthiosaurus austriacus.
Mochlodon	M. suessi	Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.	A rhabdodontid iguanodont.
Pleuropeltus	P. suessi	Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.	Later found to be synonymous with Struthiosaurus austriacus in partim.
Rhadinosaurus	R. alcinus	Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.	Possible indeterminate ankylosaur remains.
Struthiosaurus	S. austriacus	Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.
Megalosaurus	M. pannoniensis	Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.	Later found to be indeterminate theropod remains.
Ornithocheiridae indet.		Geographically present in Niederosterreich, Austria.

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations