Hunstanton Red Rock (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Norfolk, United Kingdom (53.0° N, 0.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 3.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Red Chalk Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. H. Reid. 1968. Hexactinellid faunas in the chalk of England and Ireland. Geological Magazine 105(1):15-22 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 113136: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.07.2011, edited by Marko Manojlovic

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Dactylocalycidae
"Exanthesis cf. reticulatus" = Exanthesis (Exanthesis) reticulata
"Exanthesis cf. reticulatus" = Exanthesis (Exanthesis) reticulata Hinde 1883 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Sporadopylidae
 Lychniscosa -
"Exanthesis cf. labrosus" = Plectascus labrosus
"Exanthesis cf. labrosus" = Plectascus labrosus Smith 1848 glass sponge
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
"Paracraticularia fittoni" = Laocoetis fittoni
"Paracraticularia fittoni" = Laocoetis fittoni Mantell 1822 glass sponge
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae