Planispirinella exigua  (Brady, 1879)
 
Class: Miliolata  Subclass: Miliolana  Order: Miliolida  Family: Fischerinidae
 
found on the  Mauritanian Slope
   off West Africa   Mauritania
 
Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent
 
the specimen is picked and photographed by Michael Hesemann
the raw material was provided by Leon Hoffman,
 

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14903-1 (414m 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
 
 
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dataset number: FEU-1019181
 
Citation: Hesemann, M., The Foraminifera.eu Database (2024). Accessed at http://www.foraminifera.eu on 2024-10-08. doi: 10/dt5p