Eygaliers, unit 15 (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Rhone-Alpes, France (44.2° N, 5.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 6.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• upper Lower Turonian (Salmurian), unit 15, 5-6 m thick

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Lagneau-Herenger. 1967. Les spongiaires Turoniens du synclinal d'Eygaliers (Baronnies, Drome) [Turonian sponges from the Eygaliers syncline (Baronnies, Drome)]. Travaux du Laboratoire de Geologie de la Faculte des Sciences de Grenoble 43:79-93 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110460: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Hexactinellida
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Craticularia sp.
Craticularia sp. Zittel 1877 glass sponge
Demospongiae
 Tetralithistida - Plinthosellidae
Pycnodesma globosa, Plinthosella sp.
Pycnodesma globosa Schrammen 1910 demosponge
Plinthosella sp. Zittel 1878 demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Siphoniidae
Thecosiphonia torgeri
Thecosiphonia torgeri Schrammen 1910 demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Theonellidae
Phyllodermia coronata, Ragadinia cf. galloprovincialis
Phyllodermia coronata Courtiller 1861 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Azoricidae
Leiochonia cryptoporosa
Leiochonia cryptoporosa Schrammen 1901 demosponge