Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Elphidiida  Family: Elphidiidae

 

found at Osaka Bay 439f

depth 42,3m

   Sea of Japan and around   Japan

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the specimen was picked and photographed by Michael Hesemann
with assistance of Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt, the raw material is provided by

 

Specimen picked by Karl-Otto Bock

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Tsujimoto, A., Nomura, R., Yasuhara, M., Yoshikawa, S., 2006: Benthic foraminiferal assemblages in Osaka Bay, southwestern Japan: faunal changes over the last 50 years. Paleontological Research 10, 141-161.  21 pp. Plate 5, Fig. 6

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1000545