Globorotalia truncatulinoides Core T89-40,off territorial waters,Upper Pleistocene,Pleistocene,Quaternary,, Foraminifera

Globorotalia truncatulinoides (d'Orbigny, 1839)

Class: Rotaliata Subclass: Globigerinana Order: Globorotaliida Family: Globorotaliidae

found in the Core T89-40

off Angola and Namibia off territorial waters

Geological Time: Quaternary Pleistocene Upper Pleistocene

the image is published in the below cited paper (dissertation) of Dr.

Els Ufkes

View of a specimen of Globorotalia truncatulinoides (d'Orbigny, 1839)

left coiling, flat morphotype
scale bar 100µm

The identification is based upon:

Ufkes, E., 2010: Sensitivity of planktonic foraminifera to Pleistocene climate change in the SE Atlantic. Dissertation at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
http://hdl.handle.net/1871/15942
Plate 2, Fig. 3

dataset number: FEU-1011968

Citation:
Ufkes, E., 2010: Sensitivity of planktonic foraminifera to Pleistocene climate change in the SE Atlantic. Dissertation at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
http://hdl.handle.net/1871/15942
Plate 2, Fig 3