Pararotalia calcariformata McCulloch, 1977       3   more of the same specimen

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

found at Nahsholim   Mediterranean Sea   Israel   

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent


image courtesy of Dr. Christiane Schmidt, published in the paper mentioned below Christiane Schmidt


adult specimen with dextral coiling; lateral view
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. in PLoS ONE 10(8): e0132917. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132917 Plate A, Fig. 3