Class: Miliolata  Subclass: Miliolana  Order: Miliolida  Family: Spiroloculinidae

 

found on beaches on  North Padre Island

 

   Gulf of Mexico   USA

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the image is made by Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt and Michael Hesemann with support of the
Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg


the raw material is provided by

 

 

View of a specimen of Spiroloculina sp. ---

 

side view

 

The identification is based upon:

 Yassini, I., and Jones, B. G., 1995: Foraminiferida and Ostracoda from estuarine and shelf environments on the southeastern coast of Australia.  University of Wollongong Press, Wollongong, 484 pp. Plate , Fig. 186-187

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1009130