Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Globigerinana  Order: Globigerinida  Family: Globigerinidae

 

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 Globigerina falconensis Blow, 1959

 

scale bar 100µm

 

The identification is based upon:

 Schiebel, R., Hemleben, C., 2017: Planktic Foraminifers in the Modern Ocean    Plate 2.4, Fig. 

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018435