Pararotalia sp. ---
Class: Rotaliata Subclass: Rotaliana Order: Rotaliida Family: Rotaliidaefound on the Mauritanian Slope off West Africa Mauritania
Geological Time: Quaternary Holocene recent
the raw material was provided by Leon Hoffman, the specimens were picked by Michael Hesemann and the images are made by Senckenberg am Meer
View of a specimen of Pararotalia sp. ---
RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14703-1 (111m depth)
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 A, Fig. 3
dataset number: FEU-1018792