Since December 2011 a foraminifera.eu project team consisting of Karl-Otto Bock, Michael Hesemann, Dieter Ketelsen and Stefan Raveling has worked on Maastrichtian Foraminifera from Northern Germany. Samples from the chalk-quarry Lägerdorf Grube Saturn and drill cores from Hemmoor and the Baltic off Rügen were processed and about 190 SEM and optical images made. No statistical or stratigraphical analysis is undertaken so far. In September 2012 Dr. Peter Frenzel, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena Institute of Earth Sciences - an expert on Maastrichtian Foraminifera - joined the team and proposed the idea to build an Atlas of Boreal Maastrichtian Foraminifera through Foraminifera.eu. The team agreed.

Plans for 2013

to identify the statistical and stratigraphical data on the already processed samples from Lägerdorf, Hemmoor and the Baltic Sea.

to add images of foraminifera from the Lower Maastrichtian from Rügen, provided by Dr. Peter Frenzel from his publication: Frenzel, P. (2000): Die benthischen Foraminiferen der Rügener Schreibkreide (Unter-Maastrichtium, NE-Deutschland) [The benthic Foraminifera of the Rügen Chalk (Lower Maastrichtian, Northeastern Germany)]. Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen, 3: 361 pp., 107 figs., 8 Tab, 46 plts.; Dresden.

to analyze a sample from a Upper Cretaceous block located around Grimmen near Stralsund, place it stratigraphically based on key-foraminifera and publish the results.

to work on Maastrichtian samples from Norwich, UK supervised by Dr. Peter Frenzel.