Class: Globothalamea   Subclass: Rotaliana   Order: Rotaliida   Family: Globorotaliidae

 

found in core MD95-2040 from the  Oporto Seamount

   off Biscaya and Iberia   Portugal

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Pleistocene  

the age of the core ranges from present to 340ka

 

the SEM-image is contributed by Dr.

 

 

sinistral umbilical view

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn,  1994:  The Challenger Foraminifera    Oxford Univ Press  416 pp.  Plate 103,  Fig. 8

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1005693