Dorothia retusa Azmer,Iraq,Campanian,Upper Cretaceous,Cretaceous,Shiranish Formation, Foraminifera

Dorothia retusa (Cushman, 1926)

Class: Rotaliata Subclass: Textulariana Order: Lituolida Family: Verneuilinidae

found at Azmer

Kurdistan Iraq

Geological Time: Cretaceous Upper Cretaceous Campanian

Shiranish Formation

the image is published in the below cited PhD-thesis of Dr.

R.B.N. Jaff

View of a specimen of Dorothia retusa (Cushman, 1926)

scale bar 100µm

to the professional page of Dr. R.B.N. Jaff

The identification is based upon:

Jaff, R.B.N., 2015: Late cretaceous foraminifera from the Kurdistan region, NE Iraq: palaeontological, biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental significance. PhD-Thesis, University of Leicester, Department of Geology Plate 3 in Ch5, Fig. 3

dataset number: FEU-1013384

Citation:
Jaff, R.B.N., 2015: Late cretaceous foraminifera from the Kurdistan region, NE Iraq: palaeontological, biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental significance. PhD-Thesis, University of Leicester, Department of Geology Plate 3 in Ch5, Fig 3