Elphidium macellum   (Fichtel & Moll, 1798)
 
Class: Globothalamea   Subclass: Rotaliana   Order: Rotaliida   Family: Elphidiidae
 
from 47-37m depth
      South Africa
 
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 110,  Fig. 11
 
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dataset number: FEU-1008329