Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Rotaliidae

 

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 Pararotalia sp. ---

 

scale bar 100µm

 

The identification is based upon:

 Schmidt, C., Morard, R., Almogi-Labin, A., Weinmann, A.E., Titelboim, D., Abramovich, S., Kucera, M., 2015: Recent Invasion of the Symbiont-Bearing Foraminifera Pararotalia into the Eastern Mediterranean Facilitated by the Ongoing Warming Trend. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0132917. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132917   Plate A, Fig. 3

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018794