Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Turrilinidae

 

found at  Gebel Oweina

   North Africa   Egypt

 

Geological Time: Paleogene  Eocene  Ypresian

 

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bar = 100µm

 

The identification is based upon:

 Speijer, R.P., 1994: Extinction and recovery patterns in benthic foraminiferal paleocommunities across the Cretaceous/Paleogene and Paleocene/Eocene boundaries. Geologica Ultraiectina Volume 124. Dissertation  Plate 3 from Ch. 6, Fig. 4

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1009315