Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Textulariana  Order: Textulariida  Family: Textulariidae

 

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

 

Textularia conica is seen as invalid by the WMFD

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Debenay, Jean-Pierre, 2012:  A guide to 1,000 Foraminifera from the Southwestern Pacific New Caledonia.   380 pp. Plate 2, Fig. n.a.

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1001942