Where: Picardie, France (49.8° N, 3.6° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 5.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. Pajaud. 1973. Etude paleontologique de la Thierache et du Marlois (NE du Bassin de Paris): Spongiaires du Turonien superieur et du Senonien inferieur. Documents des Laboratoires de Geologie de la Faculte des Sciences de Lyon 57:97-118 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 112659: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.07.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
Orthodiscus fragilis Schrammen 1924 glass sponge
Sporadoscinia cf. teutoniae Schrammen 1912 glass sponge |