Carpenteria utricularis (Carpenter, 1876)       

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

found at Challenger Station 218A   Micronesia + Philippine Basin   Papua New Guinea   from 29-46m 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 utricularis (Carpenter, 1876)


The identification is based upon:
Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 100, Fig. 1