Elphidium macellum  (Fichtel & Moll, 1798)
 
Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Elphidiida  Family: Elphidiidae
 
found at the beach of  Costa Calma

Fuerteventura
   Canary Islands   Spain
 
Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent
 
raw material collected, picked, identified and image provided by
 
 
 
The identification is based upon:
 Milker, Yvonne and Schmiedl, Gerhard, 2012: A taxonomic guide to modern benthic shelf foraminifera of the western Mediterranean Sea Palaeontologia Electronica Vol. 15, Issue 2 16A 
link to the article 134 p. Plate 27, Fig. 21
 
 
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dataset number: FEU-1008253
 
Citation: Hesemann, M., The Foraminifera.eu Database (2024). Accessed at http://www.foraminifera.eu on 2024-04-23. doi: 10/dt5p