Dörnten (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (52.0° N, 10.4° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 10.2° 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. 1912. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida) [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida)]. Palaeontographica, Supplement 5:176-385 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111401: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
Leiostracosia angustata Roemer 1841 glass sponge
Ventriculites radiatus Mantell 1822 glass sponge
"Leiostracosia alcyonoides" = Sporadoscinia alcyonoides Mantell 1822 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Dactylocalycidae
"Oncotoechus subrutus" = Paraplocia
"Oncotoechus subrutus" = Paraplocia glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Callodictyonidae
Becksia crispata Quenstedt 1877 glass sponge