Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Rotaliida  Family: Ammoniidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

Station 14910-2 (535m depth) at N 17.28.998 W 16.41.647

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the raw material is provided by Leon Hoffman,

 

 

abberant specimen with two whorls

 

The identification is based upon:

 Hayward, B. W., Holzmann, M., Tsuchiya, M., 2019: Combined Molecular and Morphological Taxonomy of the Beccarii/T3 Group of the Foraminiferal Genus Ammonia  in Journal of Foraminiferal Research 49(4), October 2019, p. 367-389   Plate n.a., Fig. 1-3

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1012264