Cechirgea Valley (Jurassic of Romania)

Where: Romania (44.7° N, 27.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 34.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Ungureanu and E. Barbu. 2004. Endemic features of the Upper Jurassic sponges in the western central Dobrogea (Atarnati-Cechirgea perimeter). Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 4:493-502 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98529: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Tetralithistida - Cylindrophymatidae
Melonella radiata Quenstedt 1858 demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Cribrospongiidae
Cribrospongia reticulata Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
subsp. piriformis
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Laocoetis procumbens Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
"Laocoetis parallela" = Craticularia parallela Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Pachyteichismatidae
Trochobolus cf. dentatus Kolb 1910 glass sponge