Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Elphidiida  Family: Elphidiidae

found at Strass

   Central European Highlands   Germany

Ortenburger Meeressande

Geological Time: Neogene  Miocene  Burdigalian

Obere Meeresmolasse OMM

the image is made by Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt and Michael Hesemann with support of the
Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg


material provided by Dr. Martina Pippèrr

View of a specimen of Elphidiella dollfusi (Cushman, 1936)

side view

The identification is based upon: Pippèrr, Martina, Reichenbacher, B. and Frieling, D., 2008: The Eggenburgian foraminiferal assemblage of the "Ortenburger Meeressande" (Borehole Strass). Poster from Molasse Group Meeting Stuttgart, 21.-23.5.2008.   Plate 1, Fig. 3

 

dataset number: FEU-1004834