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

 

found at  Carrick Roads

 

   English Channel   UK

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the raw matterial is provided by Adrian Brokenshire and the image is made by

 

 

View of a specimen of Discorbinella nitida (Williamson, 1858)

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Cushman, J., A., 1931: The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part 8. Rotaliidae, Amphisteginidae, Calcarinidae, Cymbaloporettidae, Globorotaliidae, Anomalinidae, Planorbulinidae, Rupertiidae and Homotremidae.  Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 104.  Plate 6, Fig. 1

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1015963