Guesnain: Late/Upper Turonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida - Lychniscosa - Callodictyonidae
Callodictyon infundibulum Zittel 1877
Hexactinellida - Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
Ventriculites radiatus Mantell 1822
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Nord-Pas de Calais
Coordinates: 50.3° North, 3.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.2° North, 4.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Turonian Other zone: Micraster breviporus
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified chalk
Environment:offshore indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:113585
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-08-02 18:23:24 Last modified:2011-08-02 04:23:24
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-08-02 18:23:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

36845. 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]