Class: Spirillinata  Subclass: Ammodiscana  Order: Spirillinida  Family: Ammodiscidae

 

found at Porcupine Station 23

from 1152m depth

   Celtic Seas   off territorial waters

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

The scan of this drawing from Bradys HMS Challenger Report is made by Dr. David Bossard and used by his permission. © Dr. David C. Bossard, 19thcenturyscience.org..

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 24, Fig. 3

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1002729