Frondicularia linearis, FRANKE, 1928

Ismail, Ahmed A., 2012, Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene benthic foraminifera from Esh El Mallaha area, Egypt, Revue de Paléobiologie 31 (1), pp. 15-50 : 32

Frondicularia linearis, FRANKE, 1928

Pl. II, fig. 3

1928. Frondicularia linearis FRANKE , p. 1-207.

1946. Frondicularia linearis FRANKE. - CUSHMAN, p. 88, pl. 35, figs. 8-10.

1952. Frondicularia linearis FRANKE. - NAKKADY, p. 429, pl. 8, fig. 6.

1956. Frondicularia linearis FRANKE. - SAID & KENAWY, p. 136, pl. 2, fig. 38.

Remarks: It is characterized by a slender and compressed test which is ornamented with a few longitudinal costae. Stratigraphic distribution: It was originally described from the Cretaceous of northern Germany (CUSHMAN, 1946), while SAID & KENAWY (1956) recorded this species in the Danian. It is recorded in the Maastrichtian and Paleocene zones of the Esh El Mallaha area.