Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Sphaeroidinidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

Station 14856-1 (1119m depth)

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the raw material is provided by Leon Hoffman,

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Loeblich, A. R., Tappan, H. N., 1994: Foraminifera of the Sahul Shelf and Timor Sea.  Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication 31. 661 pp. Plate 289, Fig. 12

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1016593