Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Globigerinana  Order: Globigerinida  Family: Globigerinidae

 

found at La Manzanilla

 

   off Middle America   Mexico

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the image is made by Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt and Michael Hesemann with support of the Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg

 

 

View of a specimen of Globigerinoides ruber  (d'Orbigny, 1839)

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Iaccarino, S.; Salvatorini, G., 1979: Planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Neogene and Quaternary sediments from Site 398, DSDP, Leg 47B. Ryan, W.B.F., Sibuet, J.-C., et al., Init. Repts. DSDP, 47 Part 2 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Vigo, Spain to Brest, France; April-May 1976.   Plate 2, Fig. 8

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1000795