Belfast (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)
Where: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (54.6° N, 6.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 2.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Offaster pilula other zone, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. E. H. Reid. 1968. Hexactinellid faunas in the chalk of England and Ireland. Geological Magazine 105(1):15-22 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 113140: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.07.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Hexactinellida | |
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Camerospongia sp. d'Orbigny 1849 glass sponge | |
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Rhizopoterion cribrosum glass sponge | |
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Cinclidella angustata Hinde 1883 glass sponge
Becksia soekelandi Schlüter 1868 glass sponge | |
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Etheridgia mirabilis Tate 1865 glass sponge | |
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Wollemannia laevis glass sponge | |
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Leptophragma striatopunctata glass sponge | |