Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Textulariana  Order: Spiroplectamminida  Family: Spiroplectamminidae

 

found at Hebridian Slope

 

   West of Ireland   UK

 

depth 846m

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

Raw material as sample No. 213 in the repository of the

 

 

View of a specimen of Spiroplectinella wrightii (Silvestri, 1903)

 

the specimens are placed by Karl-Otto Bock and photographed by Michael Hesemann

 

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 3, Fig. 13

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004147