Elphidium lene Cushman & McCulloch, 1940       

Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Elphidiida  Family: Elphidiidae
Taxon Profile

found on a beach at Cairns   Australia   exact locality unknown

Geological Time: recent  Holocene  Quaternary

Raw material provided by Family Meyer
in the collection of Karl-Otto Bock

View of specimens of Elphidium lene Cushman & McCulloch, 1940

the specimens are placed by Karl-Otto Bock and photographed by Georg Wawczyniak

The identification is based upon:
Hayward, B., W., Hollis, C., Grenfell., H., 1997: Recent Elphidiidae (Foraminiferida) of the south-west Pacific and fosssil Elphidiidae of New Zealand New Zealand Geol. Surv. Paleontol. Bull., 72, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences monograph 166 pp. Plate 13, Fig. 1-8