Lenticulina vortex

  found on     Gozo, Malta    by   David    Langhian/Miocene      Taxon Profile

View of one specimen of Lenticulina vortex
The classification is based upon swoosh-like structure, which may be misleading

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 No. 112 /2