Dachstein Limestone forereef block is part of the upper carbonate-clastic Sirogojno Melange. The succession starts with coarse-grained rudstones followed
by meter-sized reefal blocks intercalated in partly layered resedimented grainstones
and packstones with abundant reef-building organisms like calcareous
sponges, corals and encrusting organisms. Inside this part of the succession
open-marine influenced layers are rare. The succession continues with a partly
turbiditic sequence and chaotic rudstones, densely packed with reef-derived
material like broken reef-building organisms and shallow-water material like
gastropods, bivalves and foraminifers. Grainstones with clear open-marine influence
(e.g., thin-shelled bivalves, crinoids, conodonts) appear in between those
rudstones, in cases lumachelle layers consisting of halobiids were deposited. To
the end of the succession some layers show turbiditic bedding with mixed shallow-
water and deep-marine grains and organisms, i.e. filaments and crinoids.
Coordinates stated in text.