Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Globigerinana  Order: Globorotaliida  Family: Globorotaliidae

 

found at Muertos Trough

 

   Caribbean   off territorial waters

 

from 1815m depth
obtained during R/V Meteor cruise M35/1

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the image is made by Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt and Michael Hesemann with support of the
Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg


concentrated raw material provided by  

 

 

View of a specimen of Globorotalia menardii (d'Orbigny, 1826)

 

details of the spiral side of this specimen

 

The identification is based upon:

 Bollmann, Joerg, 2002: The Electronic Microfossil Image Data Base System (EMIDAS). Image access at www.emidas.org   Plate n.a., Fig. n.a.

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004605