Dentalina basiplanata CUSHMAN, 1938

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

Dentalina basiplanata CUSHMAN, 1938

Pl. I, fig. 27

1938. Dentalina basiplanata CUSHMAN , p. 38, pl. 6, figs. 6-8. 1989. Dentalina basiplanata CUSHMAN. - ISMAIL, p. 131, pl. 2,

fig. 15.

Remarks: It is characterized by very elongate test usually slightly curved. The chambers are distinct, earlier chambers are not inflated but the later chambers become increasingly inflated as added.

Stratigraphic distribution: It is recorded in the Upper Cretaceous of Mexico by CUSHMAN (1946). In the study area, it is recorded in the Campanian and Maastrichtian sediments .