Class: Miliolata  Subclass: Miliolana  Order: Miliolida  Family: Hauerinidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

 

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14889-1

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 Ptychomiliola separans (Brady, 1884)

 

scale bar 100µm

 

The identification is based upon:

 Cushman, J., A., 1929: The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part 6. Miliolidae, Ophthalmidiidae and Fischerinidae.  Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 104.  Plate 17, Fig. 6-8

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018801