Order: FORAMINIFERIDA Eichwald, 1830
Unidentified forams
The specimens illustrated below are selected from bulk-samples taken 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.
? - U. VII - A. daviesi Sz
? - Bed III - Dimorphoplites niobe Subzone
? Anomalina rudis REUSS, 1862
Bed V - Eu. lautus Sz
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? Textularia conica - Upper Bed VII (A. daviesi Subzone)
? - Bed IV (iii) - Eu. meandrinus Subzone
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.; 1964. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology; Sarcodina; Protista 2. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press
Tracey, S. 1997; unpublished listing of Gault Foraminiferida