Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Textulariana  Order: Textulariida  Family: Ataxophragmiidae

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

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). Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen, 3:
Order at CPress Verlag Dresden, Germany. Dresden 361 pp. Plate 7, Fig. 6-8

 

dataset number: FEU-1005254