Sphaeroidinella dehiscens DSDP Leg 47 Site 398,Portugal,,Pleistocene,Quaternary,, Foraminifera

Sphaeroidinella dehiscens (Parker and Jones, 1865)

Class: Rotaliata Subclass: Globigerinana Order: Globigerinida Family: Globigerinidae

found in a core of DSDP Leg 47 Site 398

off Biscaya and Iberia Portugal

Site 398

Geological Time: Quaternary Pleistocene

the images are published under public domain in the below cited scientific report of the

IODP, ODP and DSDP

View of a specimen of Sphaeroidinella dehiscens (Parker and Jones, 1865)

size about 670µm

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 9, Fig. 10

dataset number: FEU-1008840

Citation:
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 9, Fig 10