Pakistan Stratigraphy

Species

Globotruncana gansseri

Foraminifera · Late Cretaceous

Keeled, disc-shaped planktonic foraminifera that are classic index fossils of the Late Cretaceous.

Species

Foraminifera

Scientific classification

Kingdom	Rhizaria
Phylum	Foraminifera
Class	Globothalamea
Order	Rotaliida
Genus	Globotruncana
Species	gansseri

Age range: Late Cretaceous; 100.5–66 Ma; Established range worldwide.
Occurrences: 1 unit

Classification shown to the level well established for this group.

Recorded in these units

1

Korara Shale Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) to Paleocene (Montian); locally into the Lower Eocene Mesozoic

Found alongside

5

Other fossils recorded in the same units.

Globotruncana stuarti Guembelitria cretacea Heterohelix navarroensis Pseudotextularia elegans Zeauvigerina aegyptica

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