Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (52.2° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 11.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• Granulatus Zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified 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 111530: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
Becksia soekelandi Schlüter 1868 glass sponge | |
"Myrmecioptychium bodei n. gen. n. sp." = Coeloptychium (Myrmecioptychium) bodei
"Myrmecioptychium bodei n. gen. n. sp." = Coeloptychium (Myrmecioptychium) bodei Schrammen 1912 glass sponge | |
Leptophragma micropora Schrammen 1912 glass sponge |