Pileolina zealandica  Vella, 1957
 
Class: Globothalamea  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Glabratellidae
 
found at Hicks Bay
   New Zealand and off   New Zealand
 
Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent
 
the specimen was picked and photographed by Michael Hesemann
with assistance of Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt, 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 12, Fig. 16-18
 
 
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dataset number: FEU-1001468
 
Citation: Hesemann, M., The Foraminifera.eu Database (2025). Accessed at http://www.foraminifera.eu on 2025-07-20. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.22727.11680/1