Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Cibicididae

 

found at the bottom of the  Fram Strait

   Greenland Sea   Greenland

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the raw material is provided by members of the Polarstern cruise ARK XI/2 in 1995

 

 

 

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 21, Fig. 2

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1000343