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 Elphidium ortenburgense (Egger, 1857)

Regional Stage: Eggenburgian

side view

The identification is based upon: Pippèrr, Martina, 2010: Early Miocene foraminifers from the Upper Marine Molasse of the North Alpine Foreland Basin. Proxies for biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental change Dissertation   Plate 3, Fig. B

 

dataset number: FEU-1004849