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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
Eurete rauffi Schrammen 1912 glass sponge | |
Craticularia subseriata Roemer 1840 glass sponge | |
"Cephalites alternans" = Stamnia alternans
"Cephalites alternans" = Stamnia alternans Smith 1848 glass sponge | |
Rhizopoterion tubiforme Schrammen 1912 glass sponge
Sporadoscinia eutactopora Defretin-Lefranc 1960 glass sponge |