Class: Tubothalamea  Subclass:   Order: Miliolida  Family: Spiroloculinidae

 

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:

 Cushman, J., A., 1917: A Monograph of the Foraminifera of the North Pacific Ocean. Part VI. Miliolidae.  Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 71.  Plate , Fig. 

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1001872