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

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

 

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14865-1 (52m depth)

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the raw material was provided by Leon Hoffman, the specimens were picked by Michael Hesemann and the images are made by

 

 

View of a specimen of Hansenisca soldanii (d'Orbigny, 1826)

 

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 n.a., Fig. 179

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018814