Where: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (54.8° N, 5.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 2.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marsupites testudinarius other zone, Glauconitic Chalk Formation (Ulster White Limestone Group), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• lower part of Glauconitic Chalk = Spongiarian Band of Tate (1865)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, glauconitic chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. H. Reid. 1959. A monograph of the Upper Cretaceous Hexactinellida of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, part II. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 1-26 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113104: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.07.2011

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