Class: Tubothalamea  Subclass:   Order: Miliolida  Family: Hauerinidae

 

found at the bottom (123m depth) of the  Gulf of Taranto

   Mediterranean Sea   Italy

 

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

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 8, Fig. 1

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1001804