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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
Sporadoscinia zippei Reuss 1846 glass sponge
Ventriculites mammillaris Smith 1848 glass sponge |