Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Buliminida  Family: Uvigerinidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

 

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14903-1 (414m 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 Uvigerina pygmaea D'Orbigny, 1826

 

scale bar 100µm

 

The identification is based upon:

 Schoenfeld, J. , 2006: Taxonomy and distribution of the Uvigerina peregrina plexus in the tropical to Northeastern Atlantic The Journal of Foraminiferal Research 36, 4  Plate 1, Fig. 7

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018289