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

 

found at  Reykjanes Ridge

   South of Iceland   off territorial waters

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

The specimen is picked and the image is made by Dieter Ketelsen.

The raw material was collected during IceAGE RR cruise MSM75 at St. 35 (1183-1198m depth).
It was provided by K. Jesulke and Dr. J. Taylor from the DZMB,

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 115, Fig. 6

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1017848