Class: Tubothalamea  Subclass:   Order: Miliolida  Family: Hauerinidae

 

found on the  Salento shelf - Gulf of Taranto

at 10 m water depth off Santa Maria al Bagno

   Mediterranean Sea   Italy

Project: Salento waters

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

The images are also shown in the  Foraminifera section of Salento Sommerso. The specimen was collected and photographed by

 

ID by Meric as L. variolata

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Cushman, J., A., 1929: The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part 6. Miliolidae, Ophthalmidiidae and Fischerinidae.  Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 104.  Plate 17, Fig. 4

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1028249