Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Elphidiida  Family: Elphidiidae

 

found at the  Taramea Bay

 

   New Zealand and off   New Zealand

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the images are made by Cai-Uso Wohler, the sample was brought by John Taylor and the sampling did 

 

 

View of a specimen of Elphidium aculeatum (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 27, Fig. 5,6

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1017501