Chorange (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Rhone-Alpes, France (45.1° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 15.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Lagneau-Herenger. 1962. Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Cretace inferieur. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 95:1-252 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112152: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa -
Porospongia tenuis Herenger 1944 glass sponge
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
"Thyroidium cf. schweiggeri" = Dictyonocoelia schweiggeri
"Thyroidium cf. schweiggeri" = Dictyonocoelia schweiggeri Goldfuss 1829 glass sponge