Class: Astrorhizata  Subclass: Astrorhizana  Order: Astrorhizida  Family: Psammosphaeridae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

Station 14903-1 (414m depth) at N 17.548 W 16.662

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the raw material is provided by Leon Hoffman,

 

 

view of the bottom

 

The identification is based upon:

 Spezzaferri, S., Ruggeberg, A., Stalder, C., 2015: Atlas of Benthic Foraminifera from Cold-Water Coral Reefs  Cushman Foundation Special Publication 44  Plate 1, Fig. 6

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1012080