Class: Nodosariata  Subclass: Hormosinana  Order: Hormosinida  Family: Hormosinidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

 

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

Station 14852-1 (1310m depth)

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the raw material is provided by Leon Hoffman,

 

 

View of a specimen of Reophax scorpiurus de Montfort, 1808

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Spezzaferri, S., Ruggeberg, A., Stalder, C., 2015: Atlas of Benthic Foraminifera from Cold-Water Coral Reefs  Cushman Foundation Special Publication 44  Plate 2, Fig. 3

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1016875