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

 

found at Challenger Station VIII

from 1134m depth

   Canary Islands   Spain

 

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 97, Fig. 2

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1005177