Cap d'Ailly, Dieppe area, Seine-Maritime: Campanian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae - Tetralithistida - Siphoniidae
Thecosiphonia cf. turbinata
spelled with current rank as Polyierea (Thecosiphonia)
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 49.9° North, 1.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.6° North, 3.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
Key time interval: Campanian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Middle Senonian"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: chalk
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:72113
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-05-25 03:39:00 Last modified:2007-05-25 06:39:00
Access level:the public Released:2007-05-25 03:39:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24411.1% 18560G. Bignot and S. Defretin. 1967. Remarques sur les spongiaires siliceux de la craie de la region de Dieppe (Seine-Maritime) [Siliceous sponges from chalk in the Dieppe area (Seine-Maritime)]. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de Normandie et des Amis du Museum du Havre 57:9-14 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]