Class: Tubothalamea  Subclass:   Order: Miliolida  Family: Ophthalmidiidae

 

found at Gasparillo

   Caribbean Sea and Bahamas   Trinidad and Tobago

Project:

 

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:

 Kuppusamy, Mohan, Gupta, Anil K. and Bhaumik, Ajoy K., 2011: Distribution of deep-sea benthic foraminifera in the Neogene of Blake Ridge, NW Atlantic Ocean in Journal of Micropalaeontology, May 2011, v. 30: 33-74,  42 pages Plate 8, Fig. 21

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004719