Ammobaculites sp. ---       

Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Textulariana  Order: Lituolida  Family: Lituolidae

found in cores drilled in the Tromso Basin   Barents Sea   Norway   

Geological Time: Cretaceous  Upper Cretaceous  
Nygrunnen Group

image courtesy of Michael A. Kaminski
Special Publications Editor of The Grzybowski Foundation
and
providing scientist Eiichi Setoyama

View of a specimen of Ammobaculites sp. ---


The identification is based upon:
Setoyama, E., Kaminski, M.A., Tyszka, J., 2011: Late Cretaceous Agglutinated Foraminifera and Implications for the Biostratigraphy and Palaeobiogeography of the southwestern Barents Sea in Kaminski, M.A. and Filipescu, S., Eds., Proceedings of the Eight International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera, 47-55. Krakow: Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication 16. 59 pages Plate 6, Fig. 16