Elphidium aculeatum  (d'Orbigny, 1846)
 
Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Elphidiida  Family: Elphidiidae
 
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 27, Fig. 5,6
 
 
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dataset number: FEU-1015089