Class: Astrorhizata  Subclass: Astrorhizana  Order: Astrorhizida  Family: Rhabdamminidae

 

found at the bottom of the  Fram Strait

 

   Greenland Sea   Greenland

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the raw material is provided by members of the Polarstern cruise ARK XI/2 in 1995

 

View of a specimen of Rhabdammina irreguralis Carpenter, 1869

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Cushman, J., A., 1921: Foraminifera of the Philippine and Adjacent Seas.  Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 100.  Plate 1, Fig. 5

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1001733