Eygaliers, unit 16 (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

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Upper Turonian (Angoumian), unit 16, 80 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous marl

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 110461: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Tetralithistida - Theonellidae
Discodermia sp. du Bocage 1869 demosponge
Discodermia stellata Moret 1925 demosponge
"Phyllodermia antiqua" = Phyllodermia (Phyllodermia) antiqua Schrammen 1901 demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Siphoniidae
Aulaxinia cf. fallax Schrammen 1910 demosponge
cf. Siphonia (Hallirhoa) costata demosponge
subsp. elevata
"Siphonia pyriformis" = Siphonia (Siphonia) pyriformis Goldfuss 1826 demosponge
and subsp. tulipa
Jerea striata Lagneau-Herenger 1962 demosponge
Jerea pyriformis Lamouroux 1821 demosponge
Jerea clavata Pocta 1892 demosponge
Turonia praeinduta demosponge
Turonia variabilis Michelin 1847 demosponge
and subsp. elongata
Phymatella nodosa demosponge
Phymatella bulbosa Zittel 1878 demosponge