Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Planorbulinida  Family: Planorbulinidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

 

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14703-1 (111m 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 Planorbulina mediterranensis d'Orbigny, 1826

 

scale bar 100µm

 

The identification is based upon:

 Cushman, J., A., 1931: The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part 8. Rotaliidae, Amphisteginidae, Calcarinidae, Cymbaloporettidae, Globorotaliidae, Anomalinidae, Planorbulinidae, Rupertiidae and Homotremidae.  Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 104.  Plate 24, Fig. 5-8

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018775