Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Elphidiida  Family: Elphidiidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14865-1 (52m depth)

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

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

 

 

scale bar 100µm

 

The identification is based upon:

 Gehrels, W. Roland and Newman, Simon W.G., 2004: Salt-marsh foraminifera in Ho Bugt, western Denmark, and their use as sea-level indicators. Danish Journal of Geography 104(1):97-106, 2004  10 pp. Plate 2, Fig. M-O

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018779