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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
"Exanthesis cf. reticulatus" = Exanthesis (Exanthesis) reticulata
"Exanthesis cf. reticulatus" = Exanthesis (Exanthesis) reticulata Hinde 1883 glass sponge | |
Sestrodictyon retiforme glass sponge | |
"Exanthesis cf. labrosus" = Plectascus labrosus
"Exanthesis cf. labrosus" = Plectascus labrosus Smith 1848 glass sponge | |
"Paracraticularia fittoni" = Laocoetis fittoni
"Paracraticularia fittoni" = Laocoetis fittoni Mantell 1822 glass sponge | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Moutonithyris dutempleana d'Orbigny 1851 |