Order: FORAMINIFERIDA Eichwald, 1830
ROBERTININA
ROBERTINACEA Reuss, 1850
EPISTOMINIDAE
The specimen illustrated below is selected from a bulk-sample taken 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: Hoeglundina BROTZEN, 1948
Hoeglundina reticulata Reuss - Bed V Eu. lautus Zone
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
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