Cycloforina contorta  (d'Orbigny, 1846)
 
Class: Tubothalamea  Subclass:   Order: Miliolida  Family: Hauerinidae
 
found in the Mainz Basin
Pfadberg
   Upper Rhine Plain   Germany
 
Geological Time: Paleogene  Oligocene  Rupelian
Sulzheim-Formation
 
the specimen was picked and photographed by Michael Hesemann
with assistance of Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt, the raw material is provided by
 
 
 
The identification is based upon:
 Batjes, Derk Anders Johan, 1958: Foraminifera of the Oligocene of Belgium.  Bruxelles : Inst. Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 188 pp. Plate 1, Fig. 16
 
 
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dataset number: FEU-1001643
 
Citation: Hesemann, M., The Foraminifera.eu Database (2025). Accessed at http://www.foraminifera.eu on 2025-05-18. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.22727.11680/1