Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (52.1° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 11.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• Quadrata zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, calcareous 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 110616: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
Becksia soekelandi Schlüter 1868 glass sponge | |
Ventriculites radiatus, Coscinopora infundibuliformis, Pleuropyge plana, Sporadoscinia micrommata, Sporadoscinia venosa
Ventriculites radiatus Mantell 1822 glass sponge
Coscinopora infundibuliformis Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
Pleuropyge plana Schrammen 1912 glass sponge
Sporadoscinia micrommata Roemer 1841 glass sponge
Sporadoscinia venosa Roemer 1841 glass sponge | |
Coeloptychium deciminum Roemer 1841 glass sponge | |
Leptophragma murchisoni Goldfuss 1831 glass sponge | |
Demospongiae | |
Pachinion scriptum Roemer 1864 demosponge | |
Phymatella bulbosa Zittel 1878 demosponge
"Myrmeciophytum verrucosum" = Phymoracia verrucosa Roemer 1864 demosponge
Aulaxinia sulcifera Roemer 1864 demosponge | |
Seliscothon planum demosponge
Seliscothon mantelli Goldfuss 1826 demosponge | |
Verruculina tenuis Roemer 1840 demosponge
Verruculina seriatopora Roemer 1841 demosponge | |
Stichophyma multiformis Bronn 1837 demosponge
Jereica polystoma Roemer 1864 demosponge | |
Chonella tenuis Roemer 1864 demosponge
Scytalia radiciformis demosponge
Leiochonia cryptoporosa Schrammen 1901 demosponge | |
Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri Hinde 1884 demosponge |