Eygaliers, unit 15: Early Turonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae - Tetralithistida - Plinthosellidae
Pycnodesma globosa Schrammen 1910
Plinthosella sp. Zittel 1878
Demospongiae - Tetralithistida - Theonellidae
Ragadinia cf. galloprovincialis
Phyllodermia coronata (Courtiller 1861)
Demospongiae - Tetralithistida - Siphoniidae
Thecosiphonia torgeri Schrammen 1910
Demospongiae - Spirosclerophorida - Azoricidae
Leiochonia cryptoporosa Schrammen 1901
Hexactinellida - Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Craticularia sp. Zittel 1877
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Rhone-Alpes County:Drome
Coordinates: 44.2° North, 5.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.1° North, 6.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Turonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Early Turonian
Age range of interval: 93.9 - 89.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: upper Lower Turonian (Salmurian), unit 15, 5-6 m thick
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified calcareous sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:110460
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-06-08 20:57:14 Last modified:2011-06-08 06:57:14
Access level:the public Released:2011-06-08 20:57:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
36353. L. Lagneau-Herenger. 1967. Les spongiaires Turoniens du synclinal d'Eygaliers (Baronnies, Drome) [Turonian sponges from the Eygaliers syncline (Baronnies, Drome)]. Travaux du Laboratoire de Geologie de la Faculte des Sciences de Grenoble 43:79-93 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]