Nummulitidae

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Noun1.Nummulitidae - a family of fossil protoctists
family Nummulitidae
protoctist family - any of the families of Protoctista
Foraminifera, order Foraminifera - foraminifers
nummulite - large fossil protozoan of the Tertiary period
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The majority of the larger foraminiferal species from study areas belong to family Nummulitidae and Rotaliidae, whereas Miliolidae and Textularidae are also present.
UPPER PALEOCENE LARGER BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA-LOCKHART LIMESTONE FROM WESTERN AND CENTRAL SALT RANGE, PAKISTAN
The feature of benthic fauna and stratigraphic relationships with the other microfacies suggest that marl facies were deposited in an open lagoon, calm, deep and normal-salinity water but the co-occurrence of planktonic and some benthic (Nummulitidae) foraminifera in the base of the Asmari marl and marly limestone, suggest that this facies was deposited in calm, low energy hydrodynamic and deep normal salinity water which indicates deposition below the storm wave base [69,19,22,28]
Facies distribution, paleoecology and sedimentary environment of the oligocene-miocene (Asmari formation) deposits, in Qeshm Island, SE Persian Gulf
Middle- Eocene deposits include nummulitidae wackestone-packstone and nummulitidae, algae, coral wackestone which are part of a middle ramp.
The extinction event of the middle to late eocene, case study: someah-E- pain area, Alborz-Azerbaijan sub provience, NW Iran
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