Class: Miliolata  Subclass: Miliolana  Order: Miliolida  Family: Cribrolinoididae

 

found at the bottom (123m depth) of the  Gulf of Taranto

   Mediterranean Sea   Italy

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the image is made by Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt and Michael Hesemann with support of the Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg. The raw material is from cruise P339 of RV Poseidon

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Sgarella F., and Moncharmon Zei, M., 1993: Benthic foraminifera in the Gulf of Naples (Italy): systematic and autoecology. Boll. Soc. Paleont. Ital., 32.   Plate 8, Fig. 4-5

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1000012