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

 

found at off Karachi

   Arabian Sea   Pakistan

 

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:

 Hayward, B.W.; Grenfell, H.R.; Reid, C.M.; Hayward, K.A., 1999: Recent New Zealand shallow-water benthic foraminifera: taxonomy, ecologic distribution, biogeography, and use in paleoenvironmental assessments   Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences monograph 21. 264 pp. Plate 14, Fig. 24

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004262