Class: Spirillinata  Subclass: Ammodiscana  Order: Ammodiscida  Family: Ammodiscidae

 

found in cores drilled in the Tromso Basin

 

   Barents Sea   Norway

 

Geological Time: Cretaceous  Upper Cretaceous  

 

Nygrunnen Group

image courtesy of Michael A. Kaminski
Special Publications Editor of The Grzybowski Foundation
and
providing scientist

 

 

View of a specimen of Ammodiscus sp. ---

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Setoyama, E., Kaminski, M.A., Tyszka, J., 2011: Late Cretaceous Agglutinated Foraminifera and Implications for the Biostratigraphy and Palaeobiogeography of the southwestern Barents Sea Kaminski, M.A. and Filipescu, S., Eds., Proceedings of the Eight International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera, 47-55. Krakow: Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication 16.  59 pages Plate 3, Fig. 10

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1006940