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Citation: Reid, R.E.H. 1958 Remarks on the upper Cretaceous Hexactinellida of County Antrim: Part I. Irish Naturalists' Journal 12: 236-243


Number of Pages: 8

Volume Part: 9

Keywords: Antrim, Biogeography, Cnidaria, Cretaceous, Fauna, Fossil, Geology, Geomorphology, Northern Ireland

Abstract: Paper is a preliminary account and discussion of the Antrim fossil fauna. In particular, the detrital concentrations of Hexactinellid sponge remains, which are a typical feature of the glauconitic chalk which underlies the White Limestone in various parts of NE Ireland, and are specially developed in southeast Antrim.