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

 

found at Challenger Station 323

from 3475m depth, at 50.47 W, 35. 39 S

   off Argentina   off territorial waters

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

Image shown with permission of P. David Polly, Coquina Press/
Palaeontologia Electronica, see source below.
specimen in the collection of the

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Holbourn, A. E. and Henderson, A., 2002: Re-illustration and revised taxonomy for selected deep-sea benthic foraminifers. Paleontologia Electronica, 4.   Plate 3, Fig. 9

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1002306