Lenticulina rotulata  (Lamarck, 1804)
 
Class: Nodosariata  Subclass: Nodosariana  Order: Vaginulinida  Family: Vaginulinidae
 
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 14898-1 (505m depth)
scale bar 100µm
 
The identification is based upon:
 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 69, Fig. 17
 
 
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dataset number: FEU-1019185
 
Citation: Hesemann, M., The Foraminifera.eu Database (2024). Accessed at http://www.foraminifera.eu on 2024-04-26. doi: 10/dt5p