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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Doryderma sp. Zittel 1878 demosponge | |
Hexactinellida | |
"Callodictyon angustatum" = Cinclidella angustata
"Callodictyon angustatum" = Cinclidella angustata Hinde 1883 glass sponge | |
"Leiostracosia alcyonoides" = Sporadoscinia alcyonoides
"Leiostracosia alcyonoides" = Sporadoscinia alcyonoides Mantell 1822 glass sponge | |
Strephinia convoluta Hinde 1884 glass sponge |