Class: Miliolata  Subclass: Miliolana  Order: Miliolida  Family: Hauerinidae

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 Quinqueloculina lamarckiana d'Orbigny, 1839

lateral view

The identification is based upon: Cushman, J., A., 1929: The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part 6. Miliolidae, Ophthalmidiidae and Fischerinidae.  Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 104.  Plate 2, Fig. 6

 

dataset number: FEU-1012208