Glomospira charoides Contessa,Italy,Thanetian,Paleocene,Paleogene,, Foraminifera

Glomospira charoides (Jones and Parker,1860)

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

found in the road section of Contessa

Mediterranean Italy

Geological Time: Paleogene Paleocene Thanetian

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

IWAF6

View of a specimen of Glomospira charoides (Jones and Parker,1860)

size between 0,3-1,3mm, consult source on exact data

The identification is based upon:

Galeotti, S., Kaminski, M.A., Coccioni, R., Speijer, R.P., 2004: High-resolution Deep-Water Agglutinated Foraminiferal record across the Paleocene/Eocene transition in the Contessa Road Section (central Italy). Bubik, M., Kaminski, M.A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera, Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication, 8. pages 83-103 Plate 2, Fig. 9

dataset number: FEU-1009690

Citation:
Galeotti, S., Kaminski, M.A., Coccioni, R., Speijer, R.P., 2004: High-resolution Deep-Water Agglutinated Foraminiferal record across the Paleocene/Eocene transition in the Contessa Road Section (central Italy). Bubik, M., Kaminski, M.A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera, Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication, 8. pages 83-103 Plate 2, Fig 9