Hillsport, Island Magee: Coniacian - Santonian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa - Euretidae
Ptychorete ijimai n. gen., n. sp. Reid 1964
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Northern Ireland County:Antrim
Coordinates: 54.8° North, 5.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.1° North, 8.9° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Coniacian - Santonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Coniacian - Santonian Other zone:  Uintacrinus westfalicus
Age range of interval: 89.8 - 83.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ulster White Limestone Formation:Glauconitic Chalk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic lithified chalk
Environment:offshore 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:112694
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-07-15 21:58:48 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-07-15 21:58:48
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
36691. R. E. H. Reid. 1964. A monograph of the Upper Cretaceous Hexactinellida of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Part IV. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 49-154 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

36687 R. E. H. Reid. 1961. A monograph of the Upper Cretaceous Hexactinellida of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, part III. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 27-48 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]