Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Nonionidae

 

found in waters off  Sitka

Squid Bay from about 22m waterdeoth

   Pacific off Alaska   USA

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the specimen is collected and photographed by

 

 

Daniel King helped Karen with the identification. The image is also on iNaturalist.

 

The identification is based upon:

 Loeblich, A. R., Tappan, H. N., 1994: Foraminifera of the Sahul Shelf and Timor Sea.  Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication 31. 661 pp. Plate 345, Fig. 1-3

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1021465