Globorotalia hirsuta (d'Orbigny, 1839)       

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

found in the waters at the Reykjanes Ridge   off territorial waters   

Geological Time: recent  Holocene  Quaternary


the plummercell is provided by Dr. Karla Kreisel, near Greifswald Karla Kreisel

View of specimens of Globorotalia hirsuta (d'Orbigny, 1839)

the field is photographed by Georg Wawczyniak

The identification is based upon:
Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 103, Fig. 8