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

 

found found in material from an outcrop at  Penedo Sul

   Iberian Peninsula   Portugal

 

Geological Time: Neogene  Miocene  Burdigalian

 

the specimen is photographed by Brian Ottway.
It is found and identified by

 

Diameter: 600µm

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Papp, A., Schmidt, M.E., 1985: The Fossil Foraminifera of the Tertiary Basin of Vienna Revision of the monograph by Alcide d'Orbigny (1846). in Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, Band 37.   Plate , Fig. 113

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1009621