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Masonella planulata 2    more

Lectotype of Masonella planulata
in the Collections of the Natural History Museum, London.
from a station north of Sentinal Island, Bay of Bengal, 250 fathoms.                         

Images are shown with permission and thanks to Michael A. Kaminski
the Natural History Museum London (copyright-holder) and Grzybowski Foundation. The images are made by Andrew S. Henderson with the NHM Palaeontology imaging system.



Lectotype specimen of Masonella planulata Brady, 1889, from Brady Collection, 1955.5.5.891, Scale bar = 1 mm.

The classification is by: MICHAEL A. KAMINSKI, CLAUDIA G. CETEAN and ANDREW S. HENDERSON in Lectotypes of type species of Agglutinated Foraminiferal Genera in the Collections of the Natural History Museum, London. Part 1. Astrorhizina and Saccamminina in Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera edited by Kaminski; Coccioni as Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication NO 13, PG 63-77, 2008
      Masonella planulata, Lectotype Natural History Museum, London