Wielkanoc (Cretaceous of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.3° N, 19.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 18.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• Coniacian?-Santonian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified limestone

• marly-glauconitic limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Świerczewska-Gładysz. 2010. Hexactinellid sponges from the Santonian deposits of the Krakow area (southern Poland). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 80:253-284 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112490: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Aphrocallistidae
Aphrocallistes sp. Gray 1858 glass sponge
Aphrocallistes cylindrodactylus Schrammen 1912 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Euretidae
Periphragella plicata Schrammen 1902 glass sponge
Verrucocoelia alpina Herenger 1944 glass sponge
Verrucocoelia tubulata Smith 1848 glass sponge
Wollemannia araneosa Schrammen 1912 glass sponge
Lefroyella favoidea Schrammen 1912 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Cribrospongiidae
Polyopesia angustata Schrammen 1902 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Coeloptychidae
Coeloptychium subagaricoides Sinzov 1871 glass sponge
"Coeloptychium lobatum" = Coeloptychium (Lophoptychium) lobatum Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
Etheridgia mirabilis Tate 1865 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Callodictyonidae
Plocoscyphia communis Moret 1925 glass sponge
Porochonia simplex Smith 1848 glass sponge
Cinclidella angustata Hinde 1883 glass sponge
Spirolophia tortuosa Roemer 1864 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
Leiostracosia angustata Roemer 1841 glass sponge
Sporadoscinia stirps Schrammen 1912 glass sponge
Sporadoscinia alcyonoides Mantell 1822 glass sponge
Sporadoscinia venosa Roemer 1841 glass sponge
Coscinopora infundibuliformis Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
Astropegma stellata glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Polyblastidiidae
Coeloscyphia racemosa Smith 1848 glass sponge
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Laocoetis virgatula Schrammen 1912 glass sponge
Laocoetis fittoni Mantell 1822 glass sponge
Leptophragma micropora Schrammen 1912 glass sponge