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

 

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:

 Milker, Yvonne and Schmiedl, Gerhard, 2012: A taxonomic guide to modern benthic shelf foraminifera of the western Mediterranean Sea Palaeontologia Electronica Vol. 15, Issue 2 16A 
link to the article 134 p. Plate 25, Fig. 22-24

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018812