Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Buliminida  Family: Fursenkoinidae

 

found at Strass

 

   Central European Highlands   Germany

 

Ortenburger Meeressande

Geological Time: Neogene  Miocene  Burdigalian

 

Obere Meeresmolasse OMM

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


material provided by Dr. Martina Pippèrr

 

 

View of a specimen of Virgulopsis tuberculatus (Egger, 1857)

 

Regional Stage: Eggenburgian

 

The identification is based upon:

 Pippèrr, Martina, Reichenbacher, B. and Frieling, D., 2008: The Eggenburgian foraminiferal assemblage of the "Ortenburger Meeressande" (Borehole Strass). Poster from Molasse Group Meeting Stuttgart, 21.-23.5.2008.   Plate 1, Fig. 4-5

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004857