Class: Nodosariata  Subclass: Hormosinana  Order: Hormosinida  Family: Hormosinidae

 

found at Osaka Bay 439f

 

   Sea of Japan and around   Japan

 

depth 42,3m

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the image is made by Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt and Michael Hesemann with support of the
Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg


the raw material is provided by

 

View of a specimen of Leptohalysis catella (Hoeglund, 1950)

 

Leptohalysis replaces Reophax

Specimen picked by

 

The identification is based upon:

 Tsujimoto, A., Nomura, R., Yasuhara, M., Yoshikawa, S., 2006: Benthic foraminiferal assemblages in Osaka Bay, southwestern Japan: faunal changes over the last 50 years. Paleontological Research 10, 141-161.  21 pp. Plate 6, Fig. 3

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1001151