Windmühlenberg (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (52.2° N, 10.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 10.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: "Cuvieri-Pläner" Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• 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 110963: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Spirosclerophorida - Scleritodermatidae
Verruculina damaecornis Roemer 1864 demosponge
 Protomonaxonida - Sollasellidae
Opetionella radians Zittel 1878 demosponge