Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Textulariana  Order: Textulariida  Family: Textulariidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

 

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

Station 14910-2 (535m depth) at N 17.28.998 W 16.41.647

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the raw material is provided by Leon Hoffman,

 

 

View of a specimen of Tetragonostomina rhombiformis Mikhalevich, 1975

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Reymond, C.E., Guillem Mateu-Vicens, G., Westphal, H., 2014: Foraminiferal assemblages from a transitional tropical upwelling zone in the Golfe d'Arguin, Mauritania. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 148 (2014) 70 to 84   Plate 3, Fig. 1-3

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1012258