Globorotalia crassaformis Core T89-40,off territorial waters,Calabrian,Pleistocene,Quaternary,, Foraminifera

Globorotalia crassaformis (Galloway & Wissler, 1927)

Class: Rotaliata Subclass: Globigerinana Order: Globorotaliida Family: Globorotaliidae

found in the Core T89-40

off Angola and Namibia off territorial waters

Geological Time: Quaternary Pleistocene Calabrian

the image is published in the below cited paper (dissertation) of Dr.

Els Ufkes

View of a specimen of Globorotalia crassaformis (Galloway & Wissler, 1927)

cf. viola
scale bar 100µm

The identification is based upon:

Ufkes, E., 2010: Sensitivity of planktonic foraminifera to Pleistocene climate change in the SE Atlantic. Dissertation at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
http://hdl.handle.net/1871/15942
Plate 2, Fig. 10

dataset number: FEU-1011975

Citation:
Ufkes, E., 2010: Sensitivity of planktonic foraminifera to Pleistocene climate change in the SE Atlantic. Dissertation at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
http://hdl.handle.net/1871/15942
Plate 2, Fig 10