Class: Astrorhizata  Subclass: Astrorhizana  Order: Saccamminida  Family: Saccamminidae

 

found at Challenger Station 323

from 3475m depth, at 50.47 W, 35. 39 S

   off Argentina   off territorial waters

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

The scan of this drawing from Bradys HMS Challenger Report is made by Dr. David Bossard and used by his permission. © Dr. David C. Bossard, 19thcenturyscience.org..

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 37, Fig. 2

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1003163