Saccammina sphaerica Brady, 1871       

Class: Astrorhizata  Subclass: Astrorhizana  Order: Astrorhizida  Family: Saccamminidae
Taxon Profile

found in the waters at the Reykjanes Ridge   off territorial waters   

Geological Time: recent  Holocene  Quaternary


the plummercell is provided by Dr. Karla Kreisel

View of specimens of Saccammina sphaerica Brady, 1871

the field is photographed by Georg Wawczyniak

The identification is based upon:
Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 18, Fig. 11