Class: Miliolata  Subclass: Miliolana  Order: Miliolida  Family: Spiroloculinidae

 

found at Rio Merli

 

   Mediterranean   Italy

 

Geological Time: Neogene  Pliocene  Piacenzian

 

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


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View of a specimen of Spiroloculina excavata d'Orbigny, 1846

 

apertural edge view

 

The identification is based upon:

 Cicha, I., Rögl, F., Rupp, Ch. & Ctyroka, J.,, 1998: Oligocene - Miocene foraminifera of the Central Paratethys. Abhandlungen der Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, 549  1-325, 61 figs., 3 tabs., 79 pls. Plate 12, Fig. 16-17

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1005265