Cibicides sp. ---       

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

found at the chalk complexes at the cliffs of the Jasmund Peninsula,
Ruegen Jasmund   North European Plain   Germany   

Geological Time: Cretaceous  Upper Cretaceous  Maastrichtian
Lower Maastrichtian

image provided and classification done by: Peter Frenzel

View of a specimen of Cibicides sp. ---

cf. compressus Hofker, 1958
Diameter 460µm; Width 140µm

The identification is based upon:
Frenzel, Peter, 2000: Die benthischen Foraminiferen der Rügener Schreibkreide (Unter-Maastrichtium, NE-Deutschland). in Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen, 3:
Order at CPress Verlag Dresden, Germany. Dresden 361 pp. Plate 37, Fig. 8