Elphidium williamsoni (Haynes, 1973)
 
Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Elphidiida  Family: Elphidiidae
 
found at  Eilat
   Red Sea   Israel
 
Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

the image is published in the below cited PhD-thesis of Dr.
 
 
View of a specimen of Elphidium williamsoni (Haynes, 1973)
the pink is caused by rose bengal staining

to the researchgate page of Dr. Shai Oron
 
The identification is based upon:
 Gehrels, W. Roland and Newman, Simon W.G., 2004: Salt-marsh foraminifera in Ho Bugt, western Denmark, and their use as sea-level indicators. Danish Journal of Geography 104(1):97-106, 2004  10 pp. Plate 2, Fig. M-O
 
 
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dataset number: FEU-1013552
 
 
Citation:
Gehrels, W. Roland and Newman, Simon W.G., 2004: Salt-marsh foraminifera in Ho Bugt, western Denmark, and their use as sea-level indicators. Danish Journal of Geography 104(1):97-106, 2004 10 pp. Plate 2, Fig M-O