Class: Monothalamea  Subclass:   Order: Astrorhizida  Family: Psammosphaeridae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14856-1 (1118m depth)

   off West Africa   Mauritania

Project:

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the raw material is provided by Leon Hoffman,

 

scale bar 100µm

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 18, Fig. 1

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1016591