Class: Globothalamea  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Amphisteginidae

 

found at Salalah

near beach

   Arabian Sea   Oman

 

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:

 Bellier J.-P., Mathieu R. and Granier B., 2010: Short Treatise on Foraminiferology (Essential on modern and fossil Foraminifera) [Court traitè de foraminifèrologie (L'essentiel sur les foraminifères actuels et fossiles)]. Carnets de Gèologie - Notebooks on Geology, Brest, Book 2010/02 (CG2010_B02).  104 pp. Plate 3, Fig. 000f

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1003771