Class: Miliolata  Subclass: Miliolana  Order: Soritida  Family: Soritidae

 

found at Challenger Station 172

from 33m depth

   Fijii and off   Tonga

 

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..

 

 

var. plicata

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 16, Fig. 8

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1002639