Gronard (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Picardie, France (49.8° N, 3.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 4.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Breviporus zone

• 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 112661: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
Sporadoscinia quenstedti Schrammen 1912 glass sponge