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

 

found at Calvert Cliffs

 

   East Coast   USA

 

Bed 13

Geological Time: Neogene  Miocene  Serravallian

 

Calvert Formation

the raw material is contributed by Yasemin Tulu, John Nance and Dr. Stephen J. Godfrey from the

 

 

View of a specimen of Valvulineria floridana Cushman, 1930

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Snyder, S. W. et. al., 1988: Benthic foraminifera and paleoecology of Miocene Pungo River Formation sediments in Onslow Bay, North Carolina continental shelf. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication 25   Plate 6, Fig. 5

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1002118