Bayenghem-les-Eperlecques (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Nord-Pas de Calais, France (50.8° N, 2.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 3.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Micraster cortestudinarium other zone, Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Defretin-Lefranc. 1960. Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Crétacé supérieur du nord de la France. Theses presentees a la Faculte des Sciences de Lille 1-178 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113833: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Tetralithistida - Plinthosellidae
Pycnodesma globosa Schrammen 1910 demosponge