Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Bolivinitida  Family: Bolivinoididae

 

found in the Duhok area

from Khanke Well No. 1

   Kurdistan   Iraq

 

Geological Time: Cretaceous  Upper Cretaceous  

Shiranish Formation

 

the image is made by Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt and Michael Hesemann with support of the
Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg


picked specimen provided by

 

lateral view

 

 

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 25, Fig. 12-14

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1005363