Heterohelix sp.

  found near    Atzendorf, Germany  in silt-material provided by

Prof. Dr. Arnold Mueller, Geologisch - Palaeontologische Sammlung, University of Leipzig

Latdorfian, lower Oligocene      

View of an eroded specimen of Heterohelix sp.
might also be taxed as Textularia

SEM picture taken together with Dr. Rosenfeldt
head of the Mikrobiologische Vereinigung

The classification is based upon: The Fossil Foraminifera of the Tertiary Basin of Vienna, Revision of the monograph by ALCIDE d'ORBIGNY (1846) by ADOLF PAPP, MANFRED E. SCHMID, ABHANDLUNGEN DER GEOLOGISCHEN BUNDESANSTALT, Band 37, Wien 1985