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

 

found at off Karachi

   Arabian Sea   Pakistan

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the image is made by Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt and Michael Hesemann with support of the
Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg


specimen provided by Dr. Ralf Noetzel
Collection: 

 

 

 

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 8, Fig. 30

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004265