Nettlingen (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (52.2° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 9.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: "Scaphiten-Pläner" Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• Breviporus zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Schrammen. 1910. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia und Silicea incert. sedis [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia and Silicea incert. sedis]. Palaeontographica, Supplement 5:1-175 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110531: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Protomonaxonida - Sollasellidae
Rhizopsis horrida n. gen. n. sp., Opetionella poculum n. sp.
Rhizopsis horrida n. gen. n. sp. Schrammen 1910 demosponge
Opetionella poculum n. sp. Schrammen 1910 demosponge
 Halichondrida - Halichondriidae
Halichondria vosmaeri n. sp. Schrammen 1910 demosponge
 Megalithistida - Carterellidae
"Isoraphinia texta" = Eulespongia texta Roemer 1864 demosponge
Pachycothon giganteum Roemer 1864 demosponge
 Megalithistida - Pleromatidae
Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri Hinde 1884 demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Corallistidae
Pachinion scriptum Roemer 1864 demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Siphoniidae
Siphonia (Pachycalymma) subglobosa1 Schrammen 1901 demosponge
Thecosiphonia torgeri Schrammen 1910 demosponge
Phymatella intumescens Roemer 1864 demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Phymaraphiniidae
"Pholidocladia dichotoma" = Pholidocladia (Pholidocladia) dichotoma
"Pholidocladia dichotoma" = Pholidocladia (Pholidocladia) dichotoma Hinde 1884 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Azoricidae
Chonella tenuis Roemer 1864 demosponge
Scytalia terebrata demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Jereicidae
Stichophyma robusta n. sp. Schrammen 1910 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Scleritodermatidae
Verruculina tenuis Roemer 1840 demosponge
Verruculina convoluta Quenstedt 1924 demosponge
Verruculina damaecornis Roemer 1864 demosponge
Verruculina seriatopora Roemer 1841 demosponge
Verruculina crassa Roemer 1864 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Seliscothonidae
Seliscothon planum, "Chonella auriformis" = Pachyselis auriformis
"Chonella auriformis" = Pachyselis auriformis Roemer 1840 demosponge
 Pachastrellida - Pachastrellidae
Propachastrella primaeva Zittel 1878 demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa -
Plectascus clathratus2 Roemer 1864 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
Ventriculites radiatus2 Mantell 1822 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Dactylocalycidae
"Oncotoechus cavernosus" = Paraplocia cavernosa2
"Oncotoechus cavernosus" = Paraplocia cavernosa2 Schrammen 1912 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Callodictyonidae
"Plocoscyphia roemeri" = Callicylix eocenicus2
"Plocoscyphia roemeri" = Callicylix eocenicus2 Pisera and Busquets 2002 glass sponge