Where: Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France (43.7° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 9.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, glauconitic sandstone
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 112215: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.07.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Hexactinellida | |
Leptophragma membranacea, Leptophragma glutinata, "Craticularia virgatula" = Laocoetis virgatula, Reticraticularia albiensis
Leptophragma membranacea glass sponge
"Craticularia virgatula" = Laocoetis virgatula Schrammen 1912 glass sponge
Reticraticularia albiensis Lagneau-Herenger 1962 glass sponge | |
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Trochobolus dentatus Kolb 1910 glass sponge
Trochobolus texatus Goldfuss 1833 glass sponge | |
Phlyctaenium microporum n. sp.
Phlyctaenium microporum n. sp. Lagneau-Herenger 1962 glass sponge | |
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Plocoscyphia fenestrata Smith and Toulmin 1848 glass sponge
Becksia haugi Moret 1925 glass sponge
Sarophora aptiensis Herenger 1942 glass sponge
Microblastidium gaultinum Herenger 1944 glass sponge | |
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Xenoschrammenum fragile Lagneau-Herenger 1962 glass sponge | |
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Prohexactinella subconica Lagneau-Herenger 1962 glass sponge | |
Aphrocallistes verrucosus n. sp., Aphrocallistes macroporus n. sp.
Aphrocallistes verrucosus n. sp. Lagneau-Herenger 1962 glass sponge
Aphrocallistes macroporus n. sp. Lagneau-Herenger 1962 glass sponge | |
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Periphragella plicata Schrammen 1902 glass sponge | |