Pötschenkalk

{{Short description|Geological formation in Austria}}

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| age = Triassic

| period = Triassic

| prilithology = Limestone

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| country = Austria

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The Pötschenkalk is a geologic formation in Austria.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i8JYAAAAcAAJ&dq=P%C3%B6tschenkalk&pg=PA193 |title=Index der Petrographie und Stratigraphie der Schweiz und ihrer Umgebungen Index der Petrographie und Stratigraphie der Schweiz und ihrer Umgebungen |publisher=Dalp, Bern |year=1872 |pages=193 |language=de |oclc=163054031 |access-date=2024-09-03}} It preserves fossils dated to the Triassic period.{{Cite journal |last1=Mette |first1=Wolfgang |last2=Clemence |first2=Marie-Emilie |last3=Thibault |first3=Nicolas |last4=Korte |first4=Christoph |last5=Konrad |first5=Bernadette |last6=Ullmann |first6=Clemens Vinzenz |date=2019-03-15 |title=Sedimentology, carbon isotope stratigraphy and micropalaeontology of the Rhaetian Zlambach Formation– Implications for the Dachstein carbonate platform development (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria) |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0037073818302835?via%253Dihub#bb0290 |journal=Sedimentary Geology |volume=382 |pages=47–60 |doi=10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.12.009 |issn=0037-0738}}