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

 

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:

 Papp, A., Schmidt, M.E., 1985: The Fossil Foraminifera of the Tertiary Basin of Vienna Revision of the monograph by Alcide d'Orbigny (1846). in Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, Band 37.   Plate 90, Fig. 202

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004720