Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Globigerinana  Order: Globigerinida  Family: Globigerinidae

found at Muertos Trough

   Caribbean   off territorial waters

from 1815m depth
obtained during R/V Meteor cruise M35/1

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

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


concentrated raw material provided by  

View of a specimen of Orbulina universa (d'Orbigny, 1839)

see surface details

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 6, Fig. 000f

 

dataset number: FEU-1004661