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

 

found offshore  Huacho

from inner shelf

   off Peru and Northern Chile   Peru

 

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, Sabaa, A.T, Neil, H.L, Buzas, M.A., 2010: Recent New Zealand deep-water benthic foraminifera: Taxonomy, ecologic distribution, biogeography, and use in paleoenvironmental assessment  Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences monograph 26. 363 pp. Plate 17, Fig. 25-2

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004360