Cibicidoides ungerianus Djebel Meni,Algeria,Messinian,Miocene,Neogene,Lower Chelif Basin, Foraminifera

Cibicidoides ungerianus (d'Orbigny, 1846)

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

found at Djebel Meni

North Africa Algeria

Geological Time: Neogene Miocene Messinian

Lower Chelif Basin

image and identification courtesy of Dr.

Mostapha Benzina

View of a specimen of Cibicidoides ungerianus (d'Orbigny, 1846)

scale bar 100 µm

The identification is based upon:

, : Benzina, M.; Hebib, H.; Ziouit, K.; Bensalah, M. (2022). Paleoenvironmental conditions preceding the Messinian salinity crisis in Lower Chelif Basin based on benthic foraminifera (Northwestern Algeria); A case study of Djebel Meni section. Journal of African Earth Sciences 192 (2022) 104539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2022.104539 Plate 1, Fig. 4

dataset number: FEU-1024480

Citation:
, : Benzina, M.; Hebib, H.; Ziouit, K.; Bensalah, M. (2022). Paleoenvironmental conditions preceding the Messinian salinity crisis in Lower Chelif Basin based on benthic foraminifera (Northwestern Algeria); A case study of Djebel Meni section. Journal of African Earth Sciences 192 (2022) 104539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2022.104539 Plate 1, Fig 4