Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (53.3° N, 10.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 11.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• Mucronata zone
• 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 111531: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.06.2011
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Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
Ventriculites radiatus, Sporadoscinia micrommata, Sporadoscinia venosa, Coscinopora infundibuliformis
Ventriculites radiatus Mantell 1822 glass sponge
Sporadoscinia micrommata Roemer 1841 glass sponge
Sporadoscinia venosa Roemer 1841 glass sponge
Coscinopora infundibuliformis Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge | |
Toulminia benettiae Mantell 1822 glass sponge | |
Coeloptychium deciminum Roemer 1841 glass sponge
Coeloptychium seebachi Zittel 1876 glass sponge |