Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Nummulitida  Family: Nummulitidae

 

found at  Miscellaneous Localities

Dredged seasand

   Persian Gulf   Dubai

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the image is contributed by

 

Beach sample 958-14, forams heavily rolled over by waves to a rounded object

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Oron, S. et al. , 2014: Benthic foraminiferal response to the removal of aquaculture fish cages in the Gulf of Aqaba-Eilat, Red Sea in Marine Micropaleontology 107 (2014) 8-17   Plate n.a., Fig. 4

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1017880