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

 

found at the bottom (123m depth) of the  Gulf of Taranto

 

   Mediterranean Sea   Italy

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

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


raw material from cruise P339 of RV Poseidon, found at 123m depth

 

View of a specimen of Testulosiphon indivisus (Brady, 1884)

 

 

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 15, Fig. 7,8

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1001742