PBDB Collection

Brighton-Seaford Head (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 0.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 2.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Offaster pilula other zone, Upper Chalk Formation (Chalk Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. H. Reid. 1961. A monograph of the Upper Cretaceous Hexactinellida of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, part III. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 27-48 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 113111: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Hexactinellida
Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae	Sporadoscinia capax, Sporadoscinia venosa, Coscinopora infundibuliformis, Leiostracosia brandesi, Leiostracosia cf. punctata, Rhizopoterion cribrosum, Rhizopoterion cf. sterea Sporadoscinia capax Hinde 1883 glass sponge Sporadoscinia venosa Roemer 1841 glass sponge Coscinopora infundibuliformis Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge Leiostracosia brandesi Schrammen 1912 glass sponge Leiostracosia cf. punctata Schrammen 1902 glass sponge Rhizopoterion cribrosum glass sponge Rhizopoterion cf. sterea glass sponge
Lychniscosa - Callodictyonidae	Oncolpia becksioides, Becksia feuerwehri, "Cyclostigma maeandrina" = Callicylix (Cyclostigma) maeandrina, "Cyclostigma acinosa" = Callicylix (Cyclostigma) acinosa Oncolpia becksioides Defretin-Lefranc 1960 glass sponge Becksia feuerwehri Schrammen 1912 glass sponge "Cyclostigma maeandrina" = Callicylix (Cyclostigma) maeandrina Schrammen 1912 glass sponge "Cyclostigma acinosa" = Callicylix (Cyclostigma) acinosa Schrammen 1902 glass sponge
Hexactinosa - Cribrospongiidae	Polyopesia cf. angustata, Polyopesia laevis, Guettardiscyphia stellata Polyopesia cf. angustata Schrammen 1902 glass sponge Polyopesia laevis Schrammen 1912 glass sponge Guettardiscyphia stellata Michelin 1847 glass sponge
Hexactinosa - Euretidae	Eurete sp., Eurete cf. formosum, Wollemannia laevis Eurete sp. Semper 1868 glass sponge Eurete cf. formosum Reid 1959 glass sponge Wollemannia laevis glass sponge
Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae	Leptophragma murchisoni, "Craticularia relicta" = Laocoetis relicta, Craticularia beaumonti Leptophragma murchisoni Goldfuss 1831 glass sponge "Craticularia relicta" = Laocoetis relicta Schrammen 1912 glass sponge Craticularia beaumonti glass sponge