Class: Monothalamea  Subclass:   Order: Astrorhizida  Family: Psammosphaeridae

 

found at Muertos Trough

from 1815m depth
obtained during R/V Meteor cruise M35/1

   Caribbean Sea and Bahamas   off territorial waters

Project:

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the specimen was picked and photographed by Michael Hesemann
with assistance of Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt, the raw material is provided by

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 18, Fig. 1

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1004633