Class: Globothalamea  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Nonionidae

 

found at Socotra

in the sea north of Socotra

   Arabian Sea   Yemen

 

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:

 Milker, Yvonne and Schmiedl, Gerhard, 2012: A taxonomic guide to modern benthic shelf foraminifera of the western Mediterranean Sea Palaeontologia Electronica Vol. 15, Issue 2 16A 
link to the article 134 p. Plate 25, Fig. 22-24

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1001341