Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Discorbida  Family: Discorbidae

 

found in waters off  Sitka

Crawfish Inlet, from about 21m waterdepth

   Pacific off Alaska   USA

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the specimen is photographed by Michael Hesemann and collected by

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 McCulloch, I. A., 1977: Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific.  University of Southern California, Los Angeles.  Plate 120, Fig. 1,4,7

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1021789