Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Textulariana  Order: Astrorhizida  Family: Ammosphaeroidinidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

Station 14856-1 (1119m depth)

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the washed raw material from which the forams are picked is provided by
visiting researcher at Senckenberg am Meer, Abteilung Meeresforschung, Wilhelmshaven

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Kaminski, M.A., Gradstein, F.M. et. al., 2005: Atlas of Paleogene Cosmopolitan Deep-water Agglutinated Foraminifera.    Plate 96, Fig. 3

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1016715