Caudammina ovulum ODP Leg 123 Site 765,off territorial waters,Tithonian,Upper Jurassic,Jurassic,, Foraminifera

Caudammina ovulum (Grzybowski, 1896)

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Class: Nodosariata Subclass: Hormosinana Order: Hormosinida Family: Hormosinidae

found in a core of ODP Leg 123 Site 765

Site 765

off West Australia off territorial waters

Geological Time: Jurassic Upper Jurassic Tithonian

the images are published under public domain in the below cited scientific report of the

IODP, ODP and DSDP

View of a specimen of Caudammina ovulum (Grzybowski, 1896)

The identification is based upon:

Kaminski, M.A., Gradstein, F.M., and Geroch, S., 1992: Uppermost Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous deep-water benthic foraminiferal assemblages from Site 765 on the Argo Abyssal Plain. Gradstein, F.M., Ludden, J.N., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 123: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 239–269. Plate 3, Fig. 7

dataset number: FEU-1008972

Citation:
Kaminski, M.A., Gradstein, F.M., and Geroch, S., 1992: Uppermost Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous deep-water benthic foraminiferal assemblages from Site 765 on the Argo Abyssal Plain. Gradstein, F.M., Ludden, J.N., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 123: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 239–269. Plate 3, Fig 7