Opole (Cretaceous of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.7° N, 18.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 16.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: "Scaphiten-Pläner" Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified 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 111532: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Callodictyonidae
Callodictyon fragile Roemer 1841 glass sponge
Becksia nidiformis Leonhard 1897 glass sponge
Tremabolites leonhardi n. sp. Schrammen 1912 glass sponge
"Plocoscyphia roemeri" = Callicylix eocenicus Pisera and Busquets 2002 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
Ventriculites radiatus Mantell 1822 glass sponge
Leiostracosia angustata Roemer 1841 glass sponge
"Leiostracosia alcyonoides" = Sporadoscinia alcyonoides Mantell 1822 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Camerospongiidae
"Camerospongia fungiformis" = Camerospongia (Camerospongia) fungiformis
"Camerospongia fungiformis" = Camerospongia (Camerospongia) fungiformis Goldfuss 1831 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Coeloptychidae
Cameroptychium patella Leonhard 1897 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Dactylocalycidae
"Oncotoechus cavernosus n. gen. n. sp." = Paraplocia cavernosa
"Oncotoechus cavernosus n. gen. n. sp." = Paraplocia cavernosa Schrammen 1912 glass sponge