Class: Miliolata  Subclass: Miliolana  Order: Soritida  Family: Alveolinidae

 

found at the bottom of the  South West Indian Ocean

   Maldives and off   off territorial waters

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the image is made by Prof. A. N. Reddy and it was provided by:

 

Length 310µm

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Holzmann, M., J. Hohenegger, P. Hallock, W. E. Piller, and J. Pawlowski., 2001: Molecular phylogeny of large miliolid foraminifera (Soritacea Ehrenberg 1839). Marine Micropaleontol. 43:57-74.  18 pp. Plate 3, Fig. 2

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1006385