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

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

   off West Africa   Mauritania

Station 14910-2 (535m depth) at N 17.28.998 W 16.41.647

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

the raw material is provided by Leon Hoffman,

View of a specimen of Spiroloculina dilatata (d'Orbigny, 1846)

The identification is based upon: Milker, Yvonne and Schmiedl, Gerhard, 2012: A taxonomic guide to modern benthic shelf foraminifera of the western Mediterranean Sea Palaeontologia Electronica Vol. 15, Issue 2 16A 
link to the article 134 p. Plate 13, Fig. 1-2

 

dataset number: FEU-1012259