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

 

found on the beach of  Mon Repos

Queensland

   Coral Sea   Australia

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

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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 A, Fig. 6

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1016253