Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Nonionida  Family: Nonionidae

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

   off West Africa   Mauritania

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14865-1 (52m depth)

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

View of a specimen of Nonion fabum (Fichtel and Moll, 1798)

scale bar 100µm

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 25, Fig. 22-24

 

dataset number: FEU-1018810