Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (52.0° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 10.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: "Brongniarti-Pläner" Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• Galeriten Beds of the "Brongniarti-Pläner"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, calcareous marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Schrammen. 1912. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida) [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida)]. Palaeontographica, Supplement 5:176-385 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 111418: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
Cystispongia bursa Quenstedt 1852 glass sponge |