Planorbulina mediterranensis d'Orbigny, 1826       

Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Planorbulinida  Family: Planorbulinidae
Taxon Profile

found in waters up to half a mile off Lagos   off Biscaya and Iberia   Portugal   
Sample BJO409 from 26,2m depth, off Porto de Mos

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent


Raw material collected from yacht "Vontade" with Derek Parish and Brian Ottway

View of a specimen of Planorbulina mediterranensis d'Orbigny, 1826


The identification is based upon:
Milker, Yvonne and Schmiedl, Gerhard, 2012: A taxonomic guide to modern benthic shelf foraminifera of the western Mediterranean Sea Palaeontologia Electronica Vol. 15, Issue 2 16A
link to the article 134 p. Plate 24, Fig. 21-22