Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (52.2° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 9.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: "Scaphiten-Pläner" Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• Breviporus zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Schrammen. 1910. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia und Silicea incert. sedis [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia and Silicea incert. sedis]. Palaeontographica, Supplement 5:1-175 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 110531: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.06.2011
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Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Pachycothon giganteum, "Isoraphinia texta" = Eulespongia texta
Pachycothon giganteum Roemer 1864 demosponge
"Isoraphinia texta" = Eulespongia texta Roemer 1864 demosponge | |
Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri Hinde 1884 demosponge | |
Pachinion scriptum Roemer 1864 demosponge | |
"Pholidocladia dichotoma" = Pholidocladia (Pholidocladia) dichotoma
"Pholidocladia dichotoma" = Pholidocladia (Pholidocladia) dichotoma Hinde 1884 demosponge | |
Phymatella intumescens Roemer 1864 demosponge
Thecosiphonia torgeri Schrammen 1910 demosponge | |
Stichophyma verrucosa demosponge
Stichophyma robusta n. sp. Schrammen 1910 demosponge | |
Verruculina miliaris, Verruculina tenuis, Verruculina damaecornis, Verruculina seriatopora, Verruculina convoluta, Verruculina crassa
Verruculina miliaris demosponge
Verruculina tenuis Roemer 1840 demosponge
Verruculina damaecornis Roemer 1864 demosponge
Verruculina seriatopora Roemer 1841 demosponge
Verruculina convoluta Quenstedt 1924 demosponge
Verruculina crassa Roemer 1864 demosponge | |
Seliscothon planum, "Chonella auriformis" = Pachyselis auriformis
Seliscothon planum demosponge
"Chonella auriformis" = Pachyselis auriformis Roemer 1840 demosponge | |
Stachyspongia ramosa demosponge
Chonella tenuis Roemer 1864 demosponge
Scytalia terebrata demosponge | |
Propachastrella primaeva Zittel 1878 demosponge | |
Opetionella poculum n. sp., Rhizopsis horrida n. gen. n. sp.
Opetionella poculum n. sp. Schrammen 1910 demosponge
Rhizopsis horrida n. gen. n. sp. Schrammen 1910 demosponge | |
Halichondria vosmaeri n. sp.
Halichondria vosmaeri n. sp. Schrammen 1910 demosponge | |
Hexactinellida | |
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"Plocoscyphia roemeri" = Callicylix eocenicus2
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"Oncotoechus cavernosus" = Paraplocia cavernosa2
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