Hillsport, Island Magee (Cretaceous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (54.8° N, 5.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 2.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Uintacrinus westfalicus other zone, Glauconitic Chalk Formation (Ulster White Limestone Group), Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, glauconitic chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. H. Reid. 1964. A monograph of the Upper Cretaceous Hexactinellida of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Part IV. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 49-154 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112694: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Euretidae
Ptychorete ijimai n. gen. n. sp.
Ptychorete ijimai n. gen. n. sp. Reid 1964 glass sponge