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

 

found at Challenger Station 98

from 3200m depth

   off West Africa   off territorial waters

 

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:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 47, Fig. 8

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1003309