Site 398
off Biscaya and Iberia Portugal
Geological Time: Neogene Miocene Tortonian
the images are published under public domain in the below cited scientific report of the
View of a specimen of Globorotalia merotumida Blow and Banner, 1965
size about 370 and 440µm
The identification is based upon:
Iaccarino, S.; Salvatorini, G., 1979: Planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Neogene and Quaternary sediments from Site 398, DSDP, Leg 47B. Ryan, W.B.F., Sibuet, J.-C., et al., Init. Repts. DSDP, 47 Part 2 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Vigo, Spain to Brest, France; April-May 1976. Plate 4, Fig. 9,10