Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Discorbida  Family: Discorbidae

 

found at Cayo Coco

 

   Caribbean   Cuba

 

from the beach

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

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


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View of a specimen of Discorbis mira Cushman, 1930

 

umbilical view

 

The identification is based upon:

 Cushman, J., A., 1931: The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part 8. Rotaliidae, Amphisteginidae, Calcarinidae, Cymbaloporettidae, Globorotaliidae, Anomalinidae, Planorbulinidae, Rupertiidae and Homotremidae.  Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 104.  Plate 5, Fig. 5-6

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004691