Class: Nodosariata  Subclass: Hormosinana  Order:   Family: Reophacidae

 

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:

 Matoba, Yasumochi and Fukasawa, Kazue, 1992: Depth distribution of Recent benthic foraminifera on the continental shelf and uppermost slope off southern Akita Prefecture, Northeast Japan (The Eastern Japan Sea) . Centenary of Japanese Micropaleontology  20 pp. Plate 6, Fig. 5

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1001697