Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Textulariana  Order: Lituolida  Family: Verneuilinidae

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 Gaudryina sp. ---

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

The identification is based upon: Debenay, Jean-Pierre, 2012:  A guide to 1,000 Foraminifera from the Southwestern Pacific New Caledonia.   380 pp. Plate 2, Fig. 

 

dataset number: FEU-1018334