Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Elphidiida  Family: Elphidiidae

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 Elphidium williamsoni Haynes, 1973

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14865-1 (52m depth)
scale bar 100µm

The identification is based upon: Gehrels, W. Roland and Newman, Simon W.G., 2004: Salt-marsh foraminifera in Ho Bugt, western Denmark, and their use as sea-level indicators. Danish Journal of Geography 104(1):97-106, 2004  10 pp. Plate 2, Fig. M-O

 

dataset number: FEU-1018779