Class: Tubothalamea   Subclass:    Order: Miliolida   Family: Peneroplidae

 

found at  Challenger Station 24

from 713m depth

   Caribbean Sea and Bahamas   British Virgin Islands

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

The scan of this drawing from Bradys HMS Challenger Report is made by Dr. David Bossard and used by his permission. © Dr. David C. Bossard, 19thcenturyscience.org..

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Loeblich, A. R., Tappan, H. N.,  1987:  Foraminiferal genera and their classification.    Van Nostrand, Reinhold Co. New York  1728 pp.  Plate 392,  Fig. 7

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1002617