Highway A10, France (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (45.4° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 5.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: glauconitic, argillaceous carbonate

Primary reference: H. Termier and G. Termier. 1985. Spongiaires du Santonien-Campanien de l''Autoroute A10 (France). Cretaceous Research 6:143-155 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3789: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 10.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Demospongiae
 Megalithistida - Pleromatidae
"Doryderma roemeri" = Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri
"Doryderma roemeri" = Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri Hinde 1884 demosponge
Calcarea
 Lithonida - Minchinellidae
Porosphaera globularis Phillips 1829 calcareous sponge
 Calcaronea - Endostomatidae
"Corynella sp." = Endostoma
"Corynella sp." = Endostoma Roemer 1864 calcareous sponge