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

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

 

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

Station 14903-1 (414m depth) at N 17.548 W 16.662

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the raw material is provided by Leon Hoffman,

 

 

View of a specimen of Cribrostomoides sp. ---

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Debenay, Jean-Pierre, 2012:  A guide to 1,000 Foraminifera from the Southwestern Pacific New Caledonia.   380 pp. Plate 3, Fig. 

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1012175