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

 

found in waters off  Sitka

Crawfish Inlet, from about 21m waterdepth

   Pacific off Alaska   USA

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the specimen is photographed by Michael Hesemann and collected by

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Hayward, B.W.; Grenfell, H.R.; Reid, C.M.; Hayward, K.A., 1999: Recent New Zealand shallow-water benthic foraminifera: taxonomy, ecologic distribution, biogeography, and use in paleoenvironmental assessments   Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences monograph 21. 264 pp. Plate , Fig. 

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1021504