Avesnes-les-Aubert (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Nord-Pas de Calais, France (50.2° N, 3.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 4.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Micraster breviporus other zone, Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Defretin-Lefranc. 1960. Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Crétacé supérieur du nord de la France. Theses presentees a la Faculte des Sciences de Lille 1-178 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113564: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Megalithistida - Pleromatidae
Doryderma sp. Zittel 1878 demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Callodictyonidae
"Callodictyon angustatum" = Cinclidella angustata
"Callodictyon angustatum" = Cinclidella angustata Hinde 1883 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
"Leiostracosia alcyonoides" = Sporadoscinia alcyonoides
"Leiostracosia alcyonoides" = Sporadoscinia alcyonoides Mantell 1822 glass sponge
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Strephinia convoluta Hinde 1884 glass sponge