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

 

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 from above

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Reymond, C.E., Guillem Mateu-Vicens, G., Westphal, H., 2014: Foraminiferal assemblages from a transitional tropical upwelling zone in the Golfe d'Arguin, Mauritania. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 148 (2014) 70 to 84   Plate 2, Fig. 1,2

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1012297