Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Bolivinitida  Family: Bolivinidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

 

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

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

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the raw material was provided by Leon Hoffman, the specimens were picked by Michael Hesemann and the images are made by

 

 

View of a specimen of Bolivina beyrichi Reuss, 1851

 

scale bar 100µm

 

The identification is based upon:

 Cushman, J., A., 1922: The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part 3. Textulariidae. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus. 104.  Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 104.  Plate 9, Fig. 6

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018288