Class: Tubothalamea  Subclass:   Order: Miliolida  Family: Hauerinidae

 

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:

 Debenay, Jean-Pierre, 2012:  A guide to 1,000 Foraminifera from the Southwestern Pacific New Caledonia.   380 pp. Plate 5, Fig. 

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1001582