Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Textulariana  Order: Lituolida  Family: Prolixoplectidae

 

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,

 

 

different views of the same specimen

 

The identification is based upon:

 Cushman, J., A., 1920: The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part 2. Lituolidae. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus. 104.  Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 104.  Plate 2, Fig. 2-3

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1012145