Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Elphidiida  Family: Elphidiidae

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 Elphidium macellum (Fichtel and Moll, 1798)

The identification is based upon: Hayward, B., W., Hollis, C., Grenfell., H., 1997: Recent Elphidiidae (Foraminiferida) of the south-west Pacific and fosssil Elphidiidae of New Zealand  New Zealand Geol. Surv. Paleontol. Bull., 72, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences monograph 166 pp. Plate 13, Fig. 13-14

 

dataset number: FEU-1012301