Puys, Dieppe area, Seine-Maritime (Cretaceous to of France)

Where: France (49.9° N, 1.1° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 2.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)

• "Lower Senonian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Bignot and S. Defretin. 1967. Remarques sur les spongiaires siliceux de la craie de la region de Dieppe (Seine-Maritime) [Siliceous sponges from chalk in the Dieppe area (Seine-Maritime)]. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de Normandie et des Amis du Museum du Havre 57:9-14 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72111: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Callodictyonidae
Tremabolites megastoma Roemer 1840 glass sponge
Callodictyon infundibulum Zittel 1877 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
Coscinopora infundibuliformis Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
Coscinopora macropora Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
Sporadoscinia eutactopora Defretin-Lefranc 1960 glass sponge