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

 

found at Gasparillo

   Caribbean Sea and Bahamas   Trinidad and Tobago

 

Geological Time: Neogene  Miocene  

Brasso Formation

 

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:

 Hayashi, H., Asano, S., Yamashita, Y., Tanaka, T., and Nishi, H.,, 2011: Data report: late Neogene planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Nankai Trough, IODP Expedition 315 Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Volume 314/315/316   Plate 2, Fig. 4a-c

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004714