Pleurostomella torta Dokan,Iraq,Campanian,Upper Cretaceous,Cretaceous,Shiranish Formation, Foraminifera

Pleurostomella torta Cushman, 1926

Class: Rotaliata Subclass: Rotaliana Order: Rotaliida Family: Pleurostomellidae

found at Dokan

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 Pleurostomella torta 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 8 in Ch5, Fig. 10

dataset number: FEU-1013490

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 8 in Ch5, Fig 10