Beachy Head (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 2.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Schloenbachia varians ammonoid zone, Lower Chalk Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified chalk

• hard transitional band between Glauconitic Marl and Chalk Marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. H. Reid. 1959. A monograph of the Upper Cretaceous Hexactinellida of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, part II. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 1-26 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113106: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Euretidae
Eurete mantelli n. sp., Eurete columnare n. sp., "Eurete prolatum" = Eurete (Aulodomus) prolatum, Eurete formosum
Eurete mantelli n. sp. Reid 1959 glass sponge
Eurete columnare n. sp. Reid 1959 glass sponge
"Eurete prolatum" = Eurete (Aulodomus) prolatum Reid 1959 glass sponge
Eurete formosum Reid 1959 glass sponge