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

 

found at Muertos Trough

from 1815m depth
obtained during R/V Meteor cruise M35/1

   Caribbean   off territorial waters

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

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


concentrated raw material provided by  

 

 

apertural details of this specimen
the two openings to the left are boreholes

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 84, Fig. 16

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004666