Class: Globothalamea  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Discorbinellidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

   off West Africa   Mauritania

Project:

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the images are picked and made by Michael Hesemann, the raw material was provided by Leon Hoffman,

 

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14704-1 (246m depth)

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Papp, A., Schmidt, M.E., 1985: The Fossil Foraminifera of the Tertiary Basin of Vienna Revision of the monograph by Alcide d'Orbigny (1846). in Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, Band 37.   Plate n.a., Fig. 121

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018833