Carpenteria balaniformis Gray, 1858       

Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Planorbulinida  Family: Victoriellidae
Taxon Profile

found at Challenger Station 344   Ascension to St. Helena   British territories   from 768m depth

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent


The scan of this drawing from Bradys HMS Challenger Report is made by Dr. David Bossard and used by his permission.
© Dr. David C. Bossard, 19thcenturyscience.org.

HMS Challenger Collection

View of a specimen of Carpenteria balaniformis Gray, 1858


The identification is based upon:
Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 98, Fig. 3