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

 

found at Paski Channel

sediment from bycatch of trawler, from 70-80m depth

   Mediterranean Sea   Croatia

 

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 are picked and provided by

 

 

according to WFD M. barleeanum is synomized to M. barleeanus

 

The identification is based upon:

 Sgarella F., and Moncharmon Zei, M., 1993: Benthic foraminifera in the Gulf of Naples (Italy): systematic and autoecology. Boll. Soc. Paleont. Ital., 32.   Plate 26, Fig. 2

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1002946