Where: Moskovskaya Oblast, Russian Federation (55.4° N, 38.8° E: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 41.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Virgatites virgatus ammonoid zone, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• Lower Volgian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, argillaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. A. Gerasimov. 1960. Gubki podmoskovskoy yury u nizhnego mela [Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sponges of the Moscow region]. Materialy po Geologii i Poleznym Ickopayemym Tsentral'nykh Rayonov Evropeyskoy Chasti SSSR 3:5-63 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 114679: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.08.2011
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Taxonomic list
| Hexactinellida | |
Verrucocoelia patella n. sp.
Verrucocoelia patella n. sp. Gerasimov 1960 glass sponge | |
Pachyascus lopatinensis n. sp., Sphenaulax argillaceus, Sphenaulax infundibuliformis, Sphenaulax subargillaceus n. sp., Sphenaulax piriformis n. sp.
Pachyascus lopatinensis n. sp. Gerasimov 1960 glass sponge
Sphenaulax argillaceus glass sponge
Sphenaulax infundibuliformis glass sponge
Sphenaulax subargillaceus n. sp. Gerasimov 1960 glass sponge
Sphenaulax piriformis n. sp. Gerasimov 1960 glass sponge | |
| Demospongiae | |
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Discispongia sp. Kolb 1910 demosponge | |