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

 

found in a drill core  Hildesheimer Stichkanal

   North European Plain   Germany

 

Geological Time: Cretaceous  Lower Cretaceous  

Aptian / Albian

 

the image is made by Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt and Michael Hesemann with support of the Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg. The raw material and picked specimens are provided by

 

 

described in Holbourn 2005 as not having an uncoiling part

 

The identification is based upon:

 Holbourn, A. E. and Kaminski, M. A., 2005: Valanginian to Barremian Benthic Foraminifera from ODP Site 766 (Leg 123, Indian Ocean) micropaleontology 41 (3)  pp. 197-250. Plate 2, Fig. 8

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1005922