Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (52.2° N, 10.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 10.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: "Cuvieri-Pläner" Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• 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 110963: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Verruculina damaecornis Roemer 1864 demosponge | |
Opetionella radians Zittel 1878 demosponge |