Saccorhiza  ramosa  (Brady, 1879)       

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

found in the waters at the Reykjanes Ridge    off territorial waters   

Geological Time: recent  Holocene  Quaternary


the plummercell is provided by Dr. Karla Kreisel

View of specimens of Saccorhiza ramosa (Brady, 1879)

the field is photographed by Georg Wawczyniak

The identification is based upon:
Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 23, Fig. 17