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

 

found at Nahsholim

   Mediterranean Sea   Israel

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the image is published in the paper mentioned below
and contributed by its author

 

 

juvenile specimen, details of the spiral side
scale bar 100µm

 

The identification is based upon:

 Schmidt, C., Morard, R., Almogi-Labin, A., Weinmann, A.E., Titelboim, D., Abramovich, S., Kucera, M., 2015: Recent Invasion of the Symbiont-Bearing Foraminifera Pararotalia into the Eastern Mediterranean Facilitated by the Ongoing Warming Trend. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0132917. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132917   Plate B, Fig. 6

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1010163