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

 

found at  Reykjanes Ridge

Steinaholl hydrothermal vent field

   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. 222 (290.6m depth).
It was provided by K. Jesulke and Dr. J. Taylor from the DZMB,

 

 

covered with brown mineralized fall out from vent

 

The identification is based upon:

 Cushman, J., A., 1931: The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part 8. Rotaliidae, Amphisteginidae, Calcarinidae, Cymbaloporettidae, Globorotaliidae, Anomalinidae, Planorbulinidae, Rupertiidae and Homotremidae.  Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 104.  Plate 21, Fig. 3

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018974