Class: Astrorhizata  Subclass: Astrorhizana  Order: Astrorhizida  Family: Rhabdamminidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the raw material is provided by Leon Hoffman,

 

 

Station 14910-2 (535m depth)

 

The identification is based upon:

 Cushman, J., A., 1918: The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part 1. Astrorhizidae. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus. 104.  Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 104.  Plate 32, Fig. 6,7

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018232