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

 

found on the  Salento shelf - Gulf of Taranto

at 8 m water depth in a cave off Santa Maria al Bagno

   Mediterranean Sea   Italy

Project: Salento waters

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

The images are also shown in the  Foraminifera section of Salento Sommerso. The specimen was collected by F. Vitale. It was photographed by

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 , : Meriç, E.; Avşar, N.; Yokeş, M.B.; Dinçer, F. (2014). Atlas of Recent Benthic foraminifera from Turkey. Micropaleontology. 60: 211-398.    Plate 68, Fig. 1-8

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1028320