off West Africa Mauritania
Geological Time: Quaternary Holocene recent
Ozan Formation
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 14853-1 (1252m depth)
scale bar 100µm
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 1, Fig. 184