Gyroidinoides depressus ( ALTH , 1850)

Ismail, Ahmed A., 2012, Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene benthic foraminifera from Esh El Mallaha area, Egypt, Revue de Paléobiologie 31 (1), pp. 15-50 : 40

Gyroidinoides depressus ( ALTH, 1850)

Pl. III, fig. 22

1850. Rotalina depressa ALTH , p. 266, pl. 13, fig. 21.

1956. Gyroidina depressa (ALTH) .- SAID & KENAWY, p. 149, pl. 5, fig. 11.

1985. Gyroidinoides depressus (ALTH) .- LUGER, p. 109, pl. 8, fig. 1.

Remarks: It resembles the specimens recorded by LUGER (1985).

Stratigraphic distribution: It was originally described from the Late Cretaceous of Lemberg. Also, it is recorded in the Paleocene and Lower Eocene Sediments by SAID & KENAWY (1956). It is found in the Maastrichtian and Paleocene sediments of the Esh El Mallaha area.