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

 

found offshore  Huacho

from inner shelf

   off Peru and Northern Chile   Peru

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

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


material provided by Victor Aramayo, Jorge Cardich and Dimitri Gutierrez
from

 

 

resembles Cassidulina rossensis in Boltovskoy et al., 1980: Atlas of Benthic Shelf Foraminifera of the Southwest Atlantic Plate 7

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 54, Fig. 17

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004411