Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Elphidiida  Family: Elphidiidae

 

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14905-1

   off West Africa   Mauritania

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

the raw material was provided by Leon Hoffman, the specimens were picked by Michael Hesemann and the images are made by

 

 

 

The identification is based upon:

 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 110, Fig. 11

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018782