Operculina  ammonoides  (Gronovius, 1781)       

Class: Globothalamea   Subclass: Rotaliana   Order: Rotaliida   Family: Nummulitidae
Taxon Profile

found on a beach at Cairns    Australia   exact locality unknown

Geological Time: recent  Holocene  Quaternary

Raw material provided by Family Meyer
in the collection of Karl-Otto Bock

View of specimens of Operculina ammonoides (Gronovius, 1781)

the specimens are placed by Karl-Otto Bock and photographed by Georg Wawczyniak

The identification is based upon:
Hohenegger, Johann, 2011: Large Foraminifera - Greenhouse constructions and gardeners in the oceanic microcosm. The Kagoshima University Museum, Kagoshima Bulletin No. 5. 81 pp. Plate 64+65, Fig. --