Class: Miliolata  Subclass: Miliolana  Order: Miliolida  Family: Spiroloculinidae

found at  Reykjanes Ridge

   South of Iceland   off territorial waters

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

The specimen is picked and the image is made by Dieter Ketelsen.

The raw material was collected during IceAGE RR cruise MSM75 at St. 35 (1183-1198m depth).
It was provided by K. Jesulke and Dr. J. Taylor from the DZMB,

View of a specimen of Spiroloculina tenuiseptata Brady, 1884

on the left image a bit of the 4. chamber and on the right a bit of the 3. chamber is visible

The identification is based upon: Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 10, Fig. 5

 

dataset number: FEU-1017857