Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Glabratellidae

 

found at Hicks Bay

   New Zealand and off   New Zealand

 

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 provided by

 

 

found in sand from the inside of a stranded gastropod Cookia sulcata (Gmelin, 1791)

 

The identification is based upon:

 Hayward, B.W.; Grenfell, H.R.; Reid, C.M.; Hayward, K.A., 1999: Recent New Zealand shallow-water benthic foraminifera: taxonomy, ecologic distribution, biogeography, and use in paleoenvironmental assessments   Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences monograph 21. 264 pp. Plate 12, Fig. 16-18

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1001468