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

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 Cancris auricula (Fichtel & Moll, 1798)

spiral view
broad variety

The identification is based upon: Spezzaferri, S., Ruggeberg, A., Stalder, C., 2015: Atlas of Benthic Foraminifera from Cold-Water Coral Reefs  Cushman Foundation Special Publication 44  Plate 24, Fig. 10

 

dataset number: FEU-1012155