Class: Astrorhizata  Subclass: Astrorhizana  Order: Astrorhizida  Family: Psammosphaeridae

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

   off West Africa   Mauritania

Station 14856-1 (1119m depth)

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

the raw material is provided by Leon Hoffman,

View of a specimen of Psammosphaera fusca Schulze, 1875

The identification is based upon: Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 18, Fig. 1

 

dataset number: FEU-1016591