Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Textulariana  Order: Lituolida  Family: Verneuilinidae

 

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:

 , : Galloway, J. J.; Wissler, S. G. (1927). Pleistocene Foraminifera from the Lomita Quarry Palos Verdes Hills, California. Journal of Paleontology. 1: 35-87.    Plate , Fig. 

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1023145