Stephanocha fulbrightii

This is a new species, from the early Eocene of Ocean Drill Program Hole 752A in the Indian Ocean.  The skeletons have a fairly small size (40 micrometers) but a basal ring with many sides and an apical structure with many windows tha tis unusually complex for the time.  The new species is named after United States Senator J. William Fulbright (1905-1995) who in 1946 established the international exchange program of scholars that allowed me to do research in Szczecin Poland, which resulted in the discovery of this species.