Order: FORAMINIFERIDA Eichwald, 1830

 

LAGENINA; NODOSARIACEA; VAGINULINIDAE
xThe specimens illustrated below are selected from bulk-samples taken at various levels in the Middle and Late 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: Lenticulina LAMARCK, 1804
Lenticulina rotulata (LAMARCK, 1804)- Lower Gault
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Lenticulina rotulata (LAMARCK, 1804) - Bed X Hysteroceras varicosum Subzone
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xxxx Lenticulina gaultina (BERTHELIN, 1880) - Bed X Hysteroceras varicosum Subzone
Lenticulina gaultina (BERTHELIN, 1880) - Bed XI Callihoplites auritus Subzone
Lenticulina gaultina (BERTHELIN, 1880) - Bed IV (i) Diploceroides subdelaruei Subzone
Lenticulina sternalis BERTHELIN, 1880 - Bed V (Eu. lautus Zone)
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Names used are likely to be either innacurate and/or out of date (all errors are my own) and as and when it becomes possible these will be amended.
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References:
Chapman, F; 1891-1898. The Foraminifera of the Gault of Folkestone; Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society
Brasier M.D.; 1980. Microfossils
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.

 

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