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