Class: Miliolata  Subclass: Miliolana  Order: Miliolida  Family: Fischerinidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

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

 

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14865-1 (52m depth)
scale bar 100µm

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 12, Fig. 2

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018815