Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Textulariana  Order: Astrorhizida  Family: Ammosphaeroidinidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

Station 14856-1 (1119m depth)

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the washed raw material from which the forams are picked is provided by
visiting researcher at Senckenberg am Meer, Abteilung Meeresforschung, Wilhelmshaven

 

 

irregular variant

 

The identification is based upon:

 Kaminski, M.A., Gradstein, F.M. et. al., 2005: Atlas of Paleogene Cosmopolitan Deep-water Agglutinated Foraminifera.    Plate 96, Fig. 

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1016714