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

 

found in waters off  Sitka

Crawfish Inlet, from about 21m waterdepth

   Pacific off Alaska   USA

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the specimen is photographed by Michael Hesemann and collected by

 

 

with bioerosional traces of boring and grazing organisms

 

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-1021496