Class: Globothalamea  Subclass: Textulariana  Order: Lituolida  Family: Lituolidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

   off West Africa   Mauritania

Project:

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the specimen is picked and photographed by Michael Hesemann
the raw material was provided by Leon Hoffman,

 

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14911-1 (452m depth)
scale bar 100µm

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 33, Fig. 20

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1019184