Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Nonionida  Family: Nonionidae

 

found offshore  Callao

 

   off Peru and Northern Chile   Peru

 

from inner shelf

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the image is made by Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt and Michael Hesemann with support of the
Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg


material provided by Victor Aramayo, Jorge Cardich and Dimitri Gutierrez
from

 

View of a specimen of Nonionella auris (d'Orbigny, 1839)

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Boltovskoy, E. , Giussani, G. , Watanabe, S. and Wright, R., 1980: Atlas of benthic shelf Foraminifera of the Southwest Atlantic.   147 pp. Plate 22, Fig. 10-1

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004423