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Siphonia? (Cretaceous sponge)

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I found those spherical, almost shapeless (or vaguely champignon-like) pieces in an SE Pyrenees Upper Campanian site with rudists, corals, ostreids and brachs. Could They be Siphonia sponges?

 

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A broken part of the last one

 

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Yes they are Siphoniae, the ones which have the shape of pears are Siphoniae pyriformis.

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