Bulimina marginata Green Canyon,USA,recent,Holocene,Quaternary,, Foraminifera

Bulimina marginata d'Orbigny, 1826

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

found on the bottom of the Green Canyon

Gulf of Mexico USA

Geological Time: Quaternary Holocene recent

View of a specimen of Bulimina marginata d'Orbigny, 1826

scale bar 50 µm, 1b+2b:20 µm

The identification is based upon:

Sen Gupta, B.K., M.K. Lobegeier, and L.E. Smith., 2009: Foraminiferal Communities of Bathyal Hydrocarbon Seeps, Northern Gulf of Mexico: A Taxonomic, Ecologic, and Geologic Study. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, New Orleans, LA. OCS Study MMS 2009-013 Plate 29, Fig. 1-3

dataset number: FEU-1023573

Citation:
Sen Gupta, B.K., M.K. Lobegeier, and L.E. Smith., 2009: Foraminiferal Communities of Bathyal Hydrocarbon Seeps, Northern Gulf of Mexico: A Taxonomic, Ecologic, and Geologic Study. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, New Orleans, LA. OCS Study MMS 2009-013 Plate 29, Fig 1-3