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


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