Where: Nord-Pas de Calais, France (50.6° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 4.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Micraster cortestudinarium other zone, Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 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 113637: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.08.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
Sporadoscinia teutoniae Schrammen 1912 glass sponge
Sporadoscinia capax Hinde 1883 glass sponge |