Class: Globothalamea  Subclass: Textulariana  Order: Textulariida  Family: Valvulinidae

 

found at El Portillo

   Caribbean Sea and Bahamas   Dominican Republic

Project: Modern Caribbean Sea

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the specimen was picked and photographed by Michael Hesemann
with assistance of Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt, the raw material is provided by

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Brooks, Warren W., 1973: Distribution of Recent Foraminifera from the Southern Coast of Puerto Rico <a href='micropaleontology.php' target='_blank'>micropaleontology</a>&nbsp;Volume 19 Number 4, October, 1973 Micropress, New York pages 385-416 Plate 1, Fig. 4

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1000409