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

 

found at Porcupine Station 47

from around 1000m depth

   Celtic Seas   Denmark

 

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:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 20, Fig. 2

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1002684