Psammosphaera  fusca  Schulze, 1875       

Class: Monothalamea   Subclass:   Order: Astrorhizida   Family: Psammosphaeridae
Taxon Profile

found at Weddell Sea    Antarctica   

Geological Time: recent  Holocene  Quaternary

Raw material provided by Joachim Voß
in the collection of Karl-Otto Bock

View of specimens of Psammosphaera fusca Schulze, 1875

the specimens are placed by Karl-Otto Bock and photographed by Matthias Burba

The identification is based upon:
Hayward, B.W.; Grenfell, H.R.; Reid, C.M.; Hayward, K.A., 1999: Recent New Zealand shallow-water benthic foraminifera: taxonomy, ecologic distribution, biogeography, and use in paleoenvironmental assessments Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences monograph 21. 264 pp. Plate 1, Fig. 15