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 Cai-Uso Wohler.

The raw material was collected during IceAGE RR cruise MSM75 at St. 171 (about 680m depth).
It was provided by K. Jesulke and Dr. J. Taylor from the DZMB,

View of a specimen of Discanomalina crassa (Cushman, 1931)

The identification is based upon: Cushman, J., A., 1931: The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part 8. Rotaliidae, Amphisteginidae, Calcarinidae, Cymbaloporettidae, Globorotaliidae, Anomalinidae, Planorbulinidae, Rupertiidae and Homotremidae.  Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 104.  Plate 19, Fig. 1-2

 

dataset number: FEU-1018722