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

 

found  ODP Leg 149 Site 897

Site 897

   off Biscaya and Iberia   Portugal

 

Geological Time: Paleogene  Eocene  

 

the images are published under public domain in the below cited scientific report of the

 

size about 420µm

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Kuhnt, W. and Collins, E.S., 1996: Cretaceous to Paleogene benthic foraminifers from the Iberia abyssal plain. in Whitmarsh, R.B., Sawyer, D.S., Klaus, A., and Masson, D.G. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 149: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program).   Plate 2, Fig. 14

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1008391