Class: Nodosariata  Subclass: Nodosariana  Order: Nodosariida  Family: Nodosariidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

 

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 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 Amphicoryna scalaris (Batsch, 1791)

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 63, Fig. 29

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018767