Val-Saint-Pierre (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Picardie, France (49.8° N, 3.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 4.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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 113588: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
Sporadoscinia zippei Reuss 1846 glass sponge
Ventriculites mammillaris Smith 1848 glass sponge