Contusotruncana fornicata Azmer,Iraq,Campanian,Upper Cretaceous,Cretaceous,Shiranish Formation, Foraminifera

Contusotruncana fornicata (Plummer, 1921)

Class: Rotaliata Subclass: Globigerinana Order: Globigerinida Family: Globotruncanidae

found at Azmer

Kurdistan Iraq

Geological Time: Cretaceous Upper Cretaceous Campanian

Shiranish Formation

the image is published in the below cited PhD-thesis of Dr.

R.B.N. Jaff

View of a specimen of Contusotruncana fornicata (Plummer, 1921)

scale bar 100µm

to the professional page of Dr. R.B.N. Jaff

The identification is based upon:

Jaff, R.B.N., 2015: Late cretaceous foraminifera from the Kurdistan region, NE Iraq: palaeontological, biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental significance. PhD-Thesis, University of Leicester, Department of Geology Plate 6 in Ch2, Fig. 10-12

dataset number: FEU-1012784

Citation:
Jaff, R.B.N., 2015: Late cretaceous foraminifera from the Kurdistan region, NE Iraq: palaeontological, biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental significance. PhD-Thesis, University of Leicester, Department of Geology Plate 6 in Ch2, Fig 10-12