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

 

found in the  Mainz Basin

 

   Upper Rhine Plain   Germany

 

Eckelsheim

Geological Time: Paleogene  Oligocene  Rupelian

 

Alzey Formation

the material is collected and the images are made by

 

 

View of a specimen of Valvulineria petrolei (Andreae, 1884)

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Batjes, Derk Anders Johan, 1958: Foraminifera of the Oligocene of Belgium.  Bruxelles : Inst. Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 188 pp. Plate VIII, Fig. 1

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1016504