Halberstadt (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany (51.9° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 10.7° 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 110532: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Megalithistida - Carterellidae
Pachycothon giganteum Roemer 1864 demosponge
 Megalithistida - Pleromatidae
Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri Hinde 1884 demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Siphoniidae
Siphonia (Pachycalymma) subglobosa1 Schrammen 1901 demosponge
Thecosiphonia ramosa n. sp. Schrammen 1910 demosponge
Thecosiphonia torgeri n. sp. Schrammen 1910 demosponge
Phymatella intumescens Roemer 1864 demosponge
Phymatella spinosa n. sp. Schrammen 1910 demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa -
Plectascus clathratus2 Roemer 1864 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Callodictyonidae
Plocoscyphia maaki n. sp.2, "Plocoscyphia roemeri" = Callicylix eocenicus2
Plocoscyphia maaki n. sp.2 Schrammen 1912 glass sponge
"Plocoscyphia roemeri" = Callicylix eocenicus2 Pisera and Busquets 2002 glass sponge