New Zealand and off New Zealand
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
found in sand from the inside of a stranded gastropod Cookia sulcata (Gmelin, 1791)
The identification is based upon:
Debenay, Jean-Pierre, 2012: