Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Elphidiida  Family: Elphidiidae

 

found at Pietrafitta

 

   Mediterranean   Italy

 

Valdelsa Basin, Tuscany

Geological Time: Neogene  Pliocene  Piacenzian

 

the image is made by Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt and Michael Hesemann with support of the Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg

 

 

View of a specimen of Elphidium aculeatum (d'Orbigny, 1846)

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 AGIP, 1982: Foraminiferi Padani (Terziario e Quaternario). Atlante iconografico e distribuzione stratigrafica. Seconda edizione. Plates I-LII.  Agip, Milan.  Plate XXI, Fig. 8

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1003546