Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Buliminida  Family: Uvigerinidae

found on the  Mauritanian Slope

   off West Africa   Mauritania

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14903-1 (414m depth)

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 Uvigerina pygmaea d'Orbigny, 1826

scale bar 100µm

The identification is based upon: Loeblich, A. R., Tappan, H. N., 1994: Foraminifera of the Sahul Shelf and Timor Sea.  Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication 31. 661 pp. Plate 248, Fig. all

 

dataset number: FEU-1018433