Tritaxis challengeri (Hedley, Hurdle & Burdett, 1964)
Class: Rotaliata Subclass: Textulariana Order: Trochamminida Family: Trochamminidaefound 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 Senckenberg am Meer
View of a specimen of Tritaxis challengeri (Hedley, Hurdle & Burdett, 1964)
RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14856-1 (1118m depth)
scale bar 100µm
The identification is based upon:
Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 41, Fig. 3
dataset number: FEU-1018329