Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Robertinida  Family: Epistominidae

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 Hoeglundina elegans (d'Orbigny, 1826)

view of the slits at the margin

The identification is based upon: Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 105, Fig. 3

 

dataset number: FEU-1012158