Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Elphidiida  Family: Elphidiidae

 

found in the bottom of the  Laptev Sea

 

   Laptev Sea   Russia

 

from cores into the continental margin of the Laptev Sea

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  

 

image provided and classification done by:

 

 

View of a specimen of Elphidium subarcticum Cushman, 1944

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Murray, John W., 2003: An illustrated guide to the benthic foraminifera of the Hebridean shelf, west of Scotland, with notes on their mode of life. Palaeontologia Electronica, 5, (2), 
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/h 31 pp. Plate 4.2, Fig. 10