Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Textulariana  Order: Textulariida  Family: Eggerellidae

 

found in rounded chalk pieces on the Southeastern beach of the island Düne
 Helgoland

 

   North Sea   Germany

 

Geological Time: Cretaceous  Upper Cretaceous  

 

the images are made by Dieter Ketelsen,
the material is provided by Peter Schumacher,

 

 

View of a specimen of Marssonella trochus (d'Orbigny, 1840)

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Frenzel, Peter, 2000: Die benthischen Foraminiferen der Rügener Schreibkreide (Unter-Maastrichtium, NE-Deutschland). Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen, 3:
Order at CPress Verlag Dresden, Germany. Dresden 361 pp. Plate 5, Fig. 5-6

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1015643