Class: Astrorhizata  Subclass: Astrorhizana  Order: Astrorhizida  Family: Psammosphaeridae

 

found at  Reykjanes Ridge

   South of Iceland   off territorial waters

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

The specimen is picked and the image is made by Dieter Ketelsen.

The raw material was collected during IceAGE RR cruise MSM75 at St. 63 (1125m depth).
It was provided by K. Jesulke and Dr. J. Taylor from the DZMB,

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 18, Fig. 2

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1017867