Order: FORAMINIFERIDA Eichwald, 1830
TEXTULARIINA; TROCHAMMINACEA; VERNEUILINIDAE
The specimens illustrated below are selected from bulk-samples taken at two levels in the 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: Tritaxia REUSS, 1860
Tritaxia pyramidata Reuss, 1845
Tritaxia tricarinata Reuss, 1862
Bed XI - C. auritus Subzone
Bed X - H. varicosum Subzone
Bed X Hysteroceras varicosum 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.; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology; Sarcodina; Protista 2. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press
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