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

 

found in waters off  Sitka

off Halibut point recreation area

   Pacific off Alaska   USA

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the specimen is collected and photographed by

 

 

Daniel King helped Karen with the identification. The image is also on iNaturalist.

 

The identification is based upon:

 Cimerman, F., and Langer, R., 1991: Mediterranean Foraminifera. Opera / Akademia scientarium et artium Slovenica, Classis IV: Historia naturalis: 30.   Plate 77, Fig. 

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1021458