Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Buliminidae

 

found at Mem Moniz

   Iberian Peninsula   Portugal

 

Geological Time: Neogene  Miocene  Tortonian

 

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:

 Sgarella F., and Moncharmon Zei, M., 1993: Benthic foraminifera in the Gulf of Naples (Italy): systematic and autoecology. Boll. Soc. Paleont. Ital., 32.   Plate 15, Fig. 1

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1007905