Hormosinella distans De Soto Canyon,USA,recent,Holocene,Quaternary,, Foraminifera

Hormosinella distans (Brady, 1881)

Class: Nodosariata Subclass: Hormosinana Order: Hormosinida Family: Hormosinellidae

found on the bottom of the De Soto Canyon

4: Green Canyon

Gulf of Mexico USA

Geological Time: Quaternary Holocene recent

View of a specimen of Hormosinella distans (Brady, 1881)

scale bar 50 µm

The identification is based upon:

Sen Gupta, B.K., M.K. Lobegeier, and L.E. Smith., 2009: Foraminiferal Communities of Bathyal Hydrocarbon Seeps, Northern Gulf of Mexico: A Taxonomic, Ecologic, and Geologic Study. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, New Orleans, LA. OCS Study MMS 2009-013 Plate 79, Fig. 3,4

dataset number: FEU-1023629

Citation:
Sen Gupta, B.K., M.K. Lobegeier, and L.E. Smith., 2009: Foraminiferal Communities of Bathyal Hydrocarbon Seeps, Northern Gulf of Mexico: A Taxonomic, Ecologic, and Geologic Study. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, New Orleans, LA. OCS Study MMS 2009-013 Plate 79, Fig 3,4