Abnormal
Elphidium excavatum clavatum (Cushman), 1930

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found in surface sediments in the  Kiel Fjord, Baltic Sea, Germany   recent

Compressed test of this specimen of Elphidium excavatum clavatum (Cushman), 1930   (see arrows)

Images and text with permission of I. Polovodova, University of Gothenburg Department of Earth Sciences, formerly IFM-GEOMAR from:
Irina Polovodova and Joachim Schönfeld, 2008: Foraminiferal test abnormalities in the western Baltic Sea in Journal of Foraminiferal Research, v. 38 (4), p. 318-336.

IFM GEOMAR Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences Paleoceanography Department