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

 

found at Nahsholim

   Mediterranean Sea   Israel

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the image is published in the paper mentioned below
and contributed by its author

 

 

juvenile specimen,lateral view and detail
scale bar 100µm

 

The identification is based upon:

 Schmidt, C., Morard, R., Almogi-Labin, A., Weinmann, A.E., Titelboim, D., Abramovich, S., Kucera, M., 2015: Recent Invasion of the Symbiont-Bearing Foraminifera Pararotalia into the Eastern Mediterranean Facilitated by the Ongoing Warming Trend. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0132917. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132917   Plate B, Fig. 4

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1010159