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

 

found at  Alboran Ridge

 

   Mediterranean Sea   off territorial waters

 

FS Meteor Cruise 51-1 Station 469
Chain-bag dredge sample from 259-442m water depth

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the image is made by

 

 

View of a specimen of Spiroloculina excavata d'Orbigny, 1846

 

 

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 13, Fig. 3-4

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1013188