Archaias angulatus (Fichtel & Moll, 1798) 9 more
Class: Miliolata Subclass: Miliolana Order: Soritida Family: Peneroplidaefound from the beach Grand Cayman Caribbean British territories
Geological Time: Quaternary Holocene recent
the image is provided by Roland Verreet
View of a specimen of Archaias angulatus (Fichtel & Moll, 1798)
Height 790µm
chambers in the periphery open due to postmortal corrosion
common state of preservation in beach sand
The identification is based upon:
Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera in Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 14, Fig. 1
dataset number: FEU-1006270