Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Rosalinidae

 

found at Hicks Bay

   New Zealand and off   New Zealand

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the raw material is provided by

 

 

found in sand from the inside of a stranded gastropod Cookia sulcata (Gmelin, 1791)

 

The identification is based upon:

 Hayward, B.W.; Grenfell, H.R.; Reid, C.M.; Hayward, K.A., 1999: Recent New Zealand shallow-water benthic foraminifera: taxonomy, ecologic distribution, biogeography, and use in paleoenvironmental assessments   Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences monograph 21. 264 pp. Plate 10, Fig. 21-23

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1001250