Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Textulariana  Order: Textulariida  Family: Eggerellidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

 

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14852-1 (1310m 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 Karreriella bradyi (Cushman, 1911)

 

scale bar 100µm

 

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 5, Fig. 3

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018345