Montay (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Nord-Pas de Calais, France (50.1° N, 3.6° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 4.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Micraster breviporus other zone, Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, glauconitic chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Defretin-Lefranc. 1960. Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Crétacé supérieur du nord de la France. Theses presentees a la Faculte des Sciences de Lille 1-178 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113562: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Euretidae
Eurete rauffi Schrammen 1912 glass sponge
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Craticularia subseriata Roemer 1840 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Camerospongiidae
"Cephalites alternans" = Stamnia alternans
"Cephalites alternans" = Stamnia alternans Smith 1848 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
Rhizopoterion tubiforme Schrammen 1912 glass sponge
Sporadoscinia eutactopora Defretin-Lefranc 1960 glass sponge