Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Melonidae

 

found on the bottom of the area of  North Sea WH335 Box D

Station 869

   Greater North Sea   none

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the washed raw material from which the forams are picked is provided by Dr.

 

 

lateral view of a corroded specimen

 

The identification is based upon:

 Murray, John W., 2003: An illustrated guide to the benthic foraminifera of the Hebridean shelf, west of Scotland, with notes on their mode of life. Palaeontologia Electronica, 5, (2), 
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/h 31 pp. Plate 8, Fig. 14