Pileolina zealandica Vella, 1957
Class: Rotaliata Subclass: Rotaliana Order: Rosalinida Family: GlabratellidaeTaxon Profile
found at Hicks Bay New Zealand and off New Zealand
Geological Time: Quaternary Holocene recent
the image is made by Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt and Michael Hesemann with support of the
Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg
the raw material is provided by Adrian Brokenshire
View of a specimen of Pileolina zealandica Vella, 1957
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. Book Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences monograph 21. 264 pp. Plate 12, Fig. 16-18
dataset number: FEU-1001468