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

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1001468