Pararotalia calcariformata Nahsholim,Israel,recent,Holocene,Quaternary,, Foraminifera

Pararotalia calcariformata McCulloch, 1977

2 more of the same specimen

Class: Rotaliata Subclass: Rotaliana Order: Rotaliida Family: Calcarinidae

found at Nahsholim

Mediterranean Sea Israel

Geological Time: Quaternary Holocene recent

the image is published in the paper mentioned below
and contributed by its author

Christiane Schmidt

View of a specimen of Pararotalia calcariformata McCulloch, 1977

adult specimen with dextral coiling; umbilical view and detail
scale bar 100µm

The identification is based upon:

Schmidt, C., Morard, R., Almogi-Labin, A., Weinmann, A.E., Titelboim, D., Abramovich, S., Kucera, M., 2015: Recent Invasion of the Symbiont-Bearing Foraminifera Pararotalia into the Eastern Mediterranean Facilitated by the Ongoing Warming Trend. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0132917. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132917 Plate A, Fig. 3

dataset number: FEU-1010145

Citation:
Schmidt, C., Morard, R., Almogi-Labin, A., Weinmann, A.E., Titelboim, D., Abramovich, S., Kucera, M., 2015: Recent Invasion of the Symbiont-Bearing Foraminifera Pararotalia into the Eastern Mediterranean Facilitated by the Ongoing Warming Trend. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0132917. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132917 Plate A, Fig 3