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

 

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

 

 

 

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. 18-20

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004721