Class: Nodosariata  Subclass: Nodosariana  Order: Polymorphinida  Family: Ellipsolagenidae

 

found in waters off  Sitka

Crawfish Inlet, from about 21m waterdepth

   Pacific off Alaska   USA

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the specimen is photographed with the SEM VEGA3 TESCAN at Senckenberg am Meer by Michael Hesemann and collected by

 

 

view of the aperture

 

The identification is based upon:

 McCulloch, I. A., 1977: Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific.  University of Southern California, Los Angeles.  Plate 54, Fig. 21-24

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1023125