Class: Nodosariata  Subclass: Nodosariana  Order: Polymorphinida  Family: Ellipsolagenidae

 

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,

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 60, Fig. 23

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1019001