Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Gavelinellidae

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

   off West Africa   Mauritania

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

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

the raw material is provided by Leon Hoffman,

View of a specimen of Discanomalina semipunctata (Bailey, 1851)

specimen with scratches, partly disintegrated

The identification is based upon: Cushman, J., A., 1931: The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part 8. Rotaliidae, Amphisteginidae, Calcarinidae, Cymbaloporettidae, Globorotaliidae, Anomalinidae, Planorbulinidae, Rupertiidae and Homotremidae.  Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 104.  Plate 18, Fig. 1-2

 

dataset number: FEU-1012147