Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Nonionida  Family: Nonionidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

 

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

Station 14910-2 (535m depth)

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the raw material is provided by Leon Hoffman,

 

 

View of a specimen of Nonion fabum (Fichtel and Moll, 1798)

 

 

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 25, Fig. 22-24

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1016405