Catton Sponge Bed, Norwich (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)
Where: Norfolk, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 3.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-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 113138: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.07.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Hexactinellida | |
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Lepidospongia rugosa Schlueter 1870 glass sponge | |
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Leptophragma striatopunctata glass sponge | |
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Aphrocallistes cylindrodactylus Schrammen 1912 glass sponge | |