Class: Globothalamea  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Cibicididae

 

found at  Reykjanes Ridge

Steinaholl hydrothermal vent field

   South of Iceland   off territorial waters

Project:

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

The specimen is photographed by Dieter Ketelsen and the material was provided by

 

covered with brown mineralized fall out from vent

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Cushman, J., A., 1931: The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part 8. Rotaliidae, Amphisteginidae, Calcarinidae, Cymbaloporettidae, Globorotaliidae, Anomalinidae, Planorbulinidae, Rupertiidae and Homotremidae.  Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 104.  Plate 21, Fig. 3

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018974