Class: Miliolata  Subclass: Miliolana  Order: Soritida  Family: Peneroplidae

 

found at Challenger Station 24

from 713m depth

   Caribbean   British Virgin Islands

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

The scan of this drawing from Bradys HMS Challenger Report is made by Dr. David Bossard and used by his permission. © Dr. David C. Bossard, 19thcenturyscience.org..

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Loeblich, A. R., Tappan, H. N., 1987: Foraminiferal genera and their classification.  Van Nostrand, Reinhold Co. New York 1728 pp. Plate 392, Fig. 7

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1002617