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

 

found at Muertos Trough

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

   Caribbean Sea and Bahamas   off territorial waters

Project:

 

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

 

see surface details

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 84, Fig. 16

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004665