Miechow (Cretaceous of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.3° N, 20.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 18.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl

• white-grey clayey marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Hurcewicz. 1968. Siliceous sponges from the Upper Cretaceous of Poland, part II: Monaxonia and Triaxonia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 13(1):3-96 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110344: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Spirosclerophorida - Scleritodermatidae
 Spirosclerophorida - Seliscothonidae
 Spirosclerophorida - Azoricidae
Stachyspongia tuberculosa Roemer 1864 demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
Ventriculites radiatus Mantell 1822 glass sponge
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
"Craticularia virgatula" = Laocoetis virgatula
"Craticularia virgatula" = Laocoetis virgatula Schrammen 1912 glass sponge