Lenticulina oligostegia (REUSS, 1860)

Ismail, Ahmed A., 2012, Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene benthic foraminifera from Esh El Mallaha area, Egypt, Revue de Paléobiologie 31 (1), pp. 15-50 : 35

Lenticulina oligostegia (REUSS, 1860)

Pl. II, fig. 19

1860. Cristellaria oligostegia REUSS , p. 213, pl. 8, fig. 8.

1946. Robulus oligostegia (REUSS) .- CUSHMAN, p. 54, pl. 17, figs. l6, 17.

1985. Lenticulina oligostegia (REUSS) .- LUGER, p. 82, pl. 4, fig. 12.

Remarks: It has a few tumid chambers.

Stratigraphic distribution: It is recorded in the Upper Cretaceous of Trinidad and in the Velasco Shale of Mexico (CUSHMAN, 1946). It is recorded in the Maastrichtian and Paleocene zones of the Esh El Mallaha area.