Caille (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France (43.8° N, 6.7° E: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 11.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Lagneau-Herenger. 1962. Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Cretace inferieur. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 95:1-252 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112212: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Sporadopylidae
Xenoschrammenum regulare Lagneau-Herenger 1962 glass sponge
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Leptophragma glutinata Quenstedt 1878 glass sponge
Pachyascus batalleri Lagneau-Herenger 1962 glass sponge