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

 

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:

 Loeblich, A. R., Tappan, H. N., 1994: Foraminifera of the Sahul Shelf and Timor Sea.  Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication 31. 661 pp. Plate 367, Fig. 11

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1003787