Nodosaria limbata D’ORBIGNY, 1840

Ismail, Ahmed A., 2012, Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene benthic foraminifera from Esh El Mallaha area, Egypt, Revue de Paléobiologie 31 (1), pp. 15-50 : 33

Nodosaria limbata D’ORBIGNY, 1840

Pl. II, fig. 9

1840. Nodosaria limbata D’ORBIGNY , p. 12, pl. 1, fig. 1.

1956. Nodosaria limbata D’ORBIGNY. - SAID & KENAWY, p. 133, pl. 2, fig. 32.

1987. Nodosaria limbata D’ORBIGNY. - ANAN, p. 220, pl. 1, fig. 6.

Remarks: It is characterized by few inflated chambers with smooth ornamentation.

Stratigraphic distribution: It is recorded in the Upper Cretaceous white chalk of the Paris Basin by D’ORBIGNY (1840). It is recorded in the Maastrichtian and Paleocene zones of the Esh El Mallaha area.