Biewende (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (52.1° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 11.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• Quadrata zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, calcareous 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 110616: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Megalithistida - Pleromatidae
Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri Hinde 1884 demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Corallistidae
Pachinion scriptum Roemer 1864 demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Siphoniidae
Aulaxinia sulcifera Roemer 1864 demosponge
"Myrmeciophytum verrucosum" = Phymoracia verrucosa Roemer 1864 demosponge
Phymatella bulbosa Zittel 1878 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Azoricidae
Chonella tenuis Roemer 1864 demosponge
Leiochonia cryptoporosa Schrammen 1901 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Jereicidae
Jereica polystoma Roemer 1864 demosponge
Stichophyma multiformis Bronn 1837 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Scleritodermatidae
Verruculina tenuis Roemer 1840 demosponge
Verruculina seriatopora Roemer 1841 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Seliscothonidae
Seliscothon mantelli Goldfuss 1826 demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Leptophragma murchisoni Goldfuss 1831 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
Coscinopora infundibuliformis Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
Ventriculites radiatus Mantell 1822 glass sponge
Sporadoscinia venosa Roemer 1841 glass sponge
Sporadoscinia micrommata Roemer 1841 glass sponge
Pleuropyge plana Schrammen 1912 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Coeloptychidae
Coeloptychium deciminum Roemer 1841 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Callodictyonidae
Becksia soekelandi Schlüter 1868 glass sponge