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

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

   off West Africa   Mauritania

Station 14903-1 (414m depth) at N 17.548 W 16.662

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

the raw material is provided by Leon Hoffman,

View of a specimen of Discanomalina vermiculata (d'Orbigny, 1839)

The identification is based upon: Reymond, C.E., Guillem Mateu-Vicens, G., Westphal, H., 2014: Foraminiferal assemblages from a transitional tropical upwelling zone in the Golfe d'Arguin, Mauritania. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 148 (2014) 70 to 84   Plate 4, Fig. 1

 

dataset number: FEU-1012103