Class: Globothalamea   Subclass: Textulariana   Order: Lituolida   Family: Lituolidae

 

found at  Ravine Ampelu

   Caribbean Sea and Bahamas   Trinidad and Tobago

 

Geological Time: Paleogene  Paleocene  

Lizard Springs Formation

 

Image shown with permission of P. David Polly, Coquina Press/
Palaeontologia Electronica, see source below.
specimen in the collection of the

 

holotype

 

designated as Holotype

 

The identification is based upon:

 Holbourn, A. E. and Henderson, A.,  2002:  Re-illustration and revised taxonomy for selected deep-sea benthic foraminifers.  <a href='http://palaeo-electronica.org/2001_2/foram/issue2_01.htm' target='_blank'>Paleontologia Electronica, 4.</a>      Plate 1,  Fig. 1

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1002347