Class: Miliolata  Subclass: Miliolana  Order: Soritida  Family: Peneroplidae

 

found at Socotra

 

   Arabian Sea   Yemen

 

in the sea north of Socotra

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

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

 

 

View of a specimen of Peneroplis pertusus (Forskal, 1775)

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Cimerman, F., and Langer, R., 1991: Mediterranean Foraminifera. Opera / Akademia scientarium et artium Slovenica, Classis IV: Historia naturalis: 30.   Plate 49, Fig. all

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1001444