Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Bolivinitida  Family: Bolivinidae

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

   off West Africa   Mauritania

Station 14852-1 (1310m depth) at N 19,811 W 17,470

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

the raw material is provided by Leon Hoffman,

View of a specimen of Bolivina sp. 

The identification is based upon: Cushman, J., A., 1922: The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part 3. Textulariidae. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus. 104.  Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 104.  Plate 9, Fig. 

 

dataset number: FEU-1014712