Ataxophragmium crassum (d'Orbigny, 1840)
Class: Rotaliata Subclass: Textulariana Order: Textulariida Family: AtaxophragmiidaeTaxon Profile
found at Hemmoor North European Plain Germany
drill core from 32,2m to 33,0m
Geological Time: Cretaceous Upper Cretaceous Maastrichtian
the image is made by Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt and Michael Hesemann with support of the
Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg
material provided by Stefan Raveling
View of a specimen of Ataxophragmium crassum (d'Orbigny, 1840)
apertural view from above
The identification is based upon:
Frenzel, Peter, 2000: Die benthischen Foraminiferen der Rügener Schreibkreide (Unter-Maastrichtium, NE-Deutschland). in Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen, 3: Dresden 361 pp. Plate 7, Fig. 6-8
dataset number: FEU-1005254