Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliina  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Mississippinidae

 

found in waters up to half a mile  off Lagos

Sample BJO413 from 12m depth, offshore entrance of Alvor

   off Biscaya and Iberia   Portugal

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

Raw material collected from yacht "Vontade" with Derek Parish and

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Milker, Yvonne and Schmiedl, Gerhard, 2012: A taxonomic guide to modern benthic shelf foraminifera of the western Mediterranean Sea Palaeontologia Electronica Vol. 15, Issue 2 16A 
link to the article 134 p. Plate 21, Fig. 24,25

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1015087