Cancris auricula (Fichtel & Moll, 1798)       

Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Cancrisidae
Taxon Profile

found at Hebridian Slope   UK   depth 846m

Geological Time: recent  Holocene  Quaternary

Raw material as sample No. 213 in the repository of the Scot. As. for Marine Science

View of specimens of Cancris auricula (Fichtel & Moll, 1798)

the specimens are placed by Karl-Otto Bock and photographed by Michael Hesemann

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 6, Fig. 6-7