Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Uvigerinidae

 

found at Gasparillo

   Caribbean Sea and Bahamas   Trinidad and Tobago

 

Geological Time: Neogene  Miocene  

Brasso Formation

 

the specimen was picked and photographed by Michael Hesemann
with assistance of Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt, the raw material is provided by

 

Uvigerina. auberiana var. attenuata Cushman and Renz, 1941

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Bolli, H. M., Beckmann, J-P. , Saunders, J. B., 1994: Benthic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the south Caribbean region.  Cambridge University Press 408 pp. Plate 78, Fig. 34

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004702