Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Siphoninidae

 

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:

 Debenay, Jean-Pierre, 2012:  A guide to 1,000 Foraminifera from the Southwestern Pacific New Caledonia.   380 pp. Plate 21, Fig. n.a.

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1001813