Placentammina cf. placenta ( Grzybowski, 1898 )

Besen, Richard M., Struck, Ulrich & Seibertz, Ekbert, 2021, Albian to Turonian agglutinated foraminiferal assemblages of the Lower Saxony Cretaceous sub-basins - implications for sequence stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental interpretation, Fossil Record 24 (2), pp. 395-441 : 401

Placentammina cf. placenta ( Grzybowski, 1898)

1898. Reophax placenta Grzybowski , p. 276, pl. 10, figs. 9– 10.

1990. Saccammina placenta (Grzybowski) ; Kuhnt, p. 325, pl. 2, fig. 1.

1993. Saccammina placenta (Grzybowski) ; Kaminski and Geroch, p. 249, pl. 2, figs. 5–7.

2005. Placentammina placenta (Grzybowski) ; Kaminski and Gradstein, p. 136, pl. 11, figs. 1–6.

2011. Placentammina placenta (Grzybowski) ; Kaminski et al., p. 84, pl. 1, fig. 4.

Material

A total of 8 specimens from the Baddeckenstedt section, 16 specimens from the Söhlde section, 26 specimens from the Wunstorf Wu2010/1 core, and 1 specimen from the Wunstorf Wu2010/3 core.

Remarks

This species is reported no earlier than Santonian (Kuhnt, 1990) but appears already in the uppermost Albian of the Wunstorf cores.

Occurrence

Common to rare in the uppermost Albian at Wunstorf, otherwise very rare.