Class: Monothalamea  Subclass:   Order: Astrorhizida  Family: Rhabdamminidae

 

found in sediments on the  Salento shelf - open Ionian Sea

at 123 m depth south of Santa Maria di Leuca

   Mediterranean Sea   Italy

Project: Salento waters

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the specimen was picked and photographed by Michael Hesemann with assistance of Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt. The raw material is from RV Poseidon Cruise P339, Station 680 GeoB 10713-3.

 

broken part, only one "arm"

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 , : Meriç, E.; Avşar, N.; Yokeş, M.B.; Dinçer, F. (2014). Atlas of Recent Benthic foraminifera from Turkey. Micropaleontology. 60: 211-398.    Plate 1, Fig. 2

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1001742