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

 

found in the  Torrecillas Lagoon

18,4403° N, 65,9789° W, waterdepth 1,2 m

   Caribbean Sea and Bahamas   Puerto Rico

Project: Modern Caribbean Sea

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the specimen is picked and photographed by Dieter Ketelsen
from a sample provided by Dr.

 

left part seems to be broken or injured

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 , : Natland, M. L. (1938). New species of Foraminifera from off the west coast of North America and from the later Tertiary of the Los Angeles basin. Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, technical series. vol. 4 n° 5 pp. 137-163.    Plate , Fig. 

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1028360