Elphidium sp. ---
Class: Rotaliata Subclass: Rotaliana Order: Elphidiida Family: Elphidiidaefound 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 Elphidium sp. ---
RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14903-1 (414m depth)
scale bar 100µm
The identification is based upon:
Milker, Yvonne and Schmiedl, Gerhard, 2012: A taxonomic guide to modern benthic shelf foraminifera of the western Mediterranean Sea Palaeontologia Electronica Vol. 15, Issue 2 16A
link to the article 134 p. Plate , Fig. 27.25
dataset number: FEU-1018346