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

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

 

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14853-1

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 Elphidium fichtelianum (d'Orbigny, 1846)

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 , :     Plate n.a., Fig. 87

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018786