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

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

 

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

Station 14910-2 (535m 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 Bulimina aculeata d'Orbigny, 1826

 

scale bar 100µm

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 51, Fig. 7

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018320