Lüneburg (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (53.3° N, 10.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 11.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• Mucronata zone

• 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 111531: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
Coscinopora infundibuliformis Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
Sporadoscinia venosa Roemer 1841 glass sponge
Sporadoscinia micrommata Roemer 1841 glass sponge
Ventriculites radiatus Mantell 1822 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Coeloptychidae
Coeloptychium seebachi Zittel 1876 glass sponge
Coeloptychium deciminum Roemer 1841 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Camerospongiidae
Toulminia benettiae Mantell 1822 glass sponge