Nodosaria raphinistrum (LINNE, 1758)

Ismail, Ahmed A., 2012, Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene benthic foraminifera from Esh El Mallaha area, Egypt, Revue de Paléobiologie 31 (1), pp. 15-50 : 34

Nodosaria raphinistrum (LINNE, 1758)

Pl. II, fig. 12

1758. Nautilus raphinistrum LINNE , p. 710, pl. 1, fig. 6.

1985. Nodosaria raphinistrum (LINNE) .- LUGER, p. 81, pl. 4, fig. 7.

Remarks: It differs from N. latejugata in rapidly decreasing in chamber size as added.

Stratigraphic distribution: It is recorded in the Maastrichtian and Paleocene by LUGER (1985). It is rare to moderate in the Maastrichtian zones and it is floody in the Paleocene zones of the Esh El Mallaha area.