Operculina ammonoides (Gronovius, 1781)
Class: Rotaliata Subclass: Rotaliana Order: Nummulitida Family: NummulitidaeTaxon Profile
found at Eilat Red Sea Israel
Geological Time: Quaternary Holocene recent
the image is published in the below cited PhD-thesis of Dr. Shai Oron
View of a specimen of Operculina ammonoides (Gronovius, 1781)
the pink is caused by rose bengal staining
to the researchgate page of Dr. Shai Oron
The identification is based upon:
Oron, S. et al. , 2014: Benthic foraminiferal response to the removal of aquaculture fish cages in the Gulf of Aqaba-Eilat, Red Sea in Marine Micropaleontology 107 (2014) 8-17 Plate n.a., Fig. 4
dataset number: FEU-1013543