Rickmansworth (Cretaceous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.6° N, 0.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 1.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Micraster coranguinum other zone, Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified 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 112696: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Farreidae
Farrea cf. oakleyi1 Reid 1959 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Euretidae
Pseudobecksia schmidti n. gen. n. sp. Reid 1964 glass sponge
Eurete cf. formosum2 Reid 1959 glass sponge