Class: Miliolata  Subclass: Miliolana  Order: Miliolida  Family: Hauerinidae

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 Pyrgo williamsoni (Silvestri, 1923)

RV Maria S. Merian Cruise 16/3 Station 14853-1
scale bar 100µm

The identification is based upon: Murray, John W., 2003: An illustrated guide to the benthic foraminifera of the Hebridean shelf, west of Scotland, with notes on their mode of life. Palaeontologia Electronica, 5, (2), 
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/h 31 pp. Plate 4, Fig. 7