Could you help me to identifying this benthonic foraminiferal species?

Mazin Abdulraqzzaq Aldoory @Mazin-Aldoory

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this thin section sample which taken from Late Campanian - Maastrichtian age carbonate Formation Northern Iraq.

See this textularid species in Ashwaq Talib Al-Hamdani, 1980, who studied the Aqra Formation in the region of Gali Zenta. (Type locality of Aqra Fn.)

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