Order: FORAMINIFERIDA Eichwald, 1830
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ROTALIINA |
CHILOSTOMELLACEA |
GAVELLINELLIDAE |
The specimens illustrated below are selected from bulk-samples taken at various levels in the Middle Albian at Folkestone. Images have been produced using a Nikon 990 CookPix digital camera attached to a Meiji trinocular microscope and processed using PaintshopPro Version 5. |
Genus: Gavellinella BROTZEN, 1942 |
Gavelinella intermedia (Berthelin, 1880) |
Late Albian - Upper Gault - Hysteroceras varicosum Subzone - Sample F/13 |
References: |
Chapman, F; 1891-1898. The Foraminifera of the Gault of Folkestone; Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society |
Brasier M.D.; 1980. Microfossils; London George Allen & Unwin |
Hart, M. B.; 1972. A correlation of the macrofaunal and microfaunal zonations of the Gault Clay in southeast England; The Boreal Lower Cretaceous; Geological Journal Special Issue No. 5 |
Loeblich, A.R. & Tappan, H.; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology; Sarcodina; Protista 2. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press |