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

 

found at about 5m waterdepth  Sao Miguel

   Azores   Portugal

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the specimen was picked and photographed by Michael Hesemann
with assistance of Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt, the raw material is provided by

 

 

apertural view

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn,  1994:  The Challenger Foraminifera    Oxford Univ Press  416 pp.  Plate 93,  Fig. 1

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1008347