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

 

found at Hebridian Slope

depth 846m

   Celtic Seas   UK

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

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

 

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

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Murray, John W., 2003: An illustrated guide to the benthic foraminifera of the Hebridean shelf, west of Scotland, with notes on their mode of life. Palaeontologia Electronica, 5, (2), 
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/h 31 pp. Plate 6, Fig. 13-1