Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Globigerinana  Order: Globorotaliida  Family: Globorotaliidae

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

   off West Africa   Mauritania

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

the raw material was provided by Leon Hoffman, the specimens were picked by Michael Hesemann and the images are made by

View of a specimen of Globorotalia inflata (d'Orbigny, 1839)

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14910-2 (535m depth)
scale bar 100µm

The identification is based upon: Schiebel, R., Hemleben, C., 2017: Planktic Foraminifers in the Modern Ocean    Plate 2.25, Fig. 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018308