Class: Miliolata  Subclass: Miliolana  Order: Miliolida  Family: Miliolidae

 

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 Triloculina angusteoralis (Wiesner, 1923)

 

lateral view, side with 3 chambers

 

The identification is based upon:

 Sgarella F., and Moncharmon Zei, M., 1993: Benthic foraminifera in the Gulf of Naples (Italy): systematic and autoecology. Boll. Soc. Paleont. Ital., 32.   Plate 10, Fig. 3-4

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1012166