10.1594/PANGAEA.967496Hesemann, MichaelMichaelHesemannPANGAEA2024BenthosCold water coral habitatsForaminiferaMauritaniaEvent labelLatitude of eventLongitude of eventElevation of eventSiteDEPTH, sediment/rockForaminifera, benthic, totalAcervulina inhaerensAmmobaculites filiformisAmmodiscus tenuisAmmolagena clavataAmmonia neobeccariiAmphicoryna scalarisBolivina beyrichiBolivina earlandiBolivina spathulataBolivina subaenariensisBulimina aculeataBulimina marginataBulimina striataCancris auriculusCassidulina laevigataChilostomella oolinaCibicidoides lobatulusCibicidoides mundulusCibicidoides wuellerstorfiConnemarella rudisCribromiliolinella subvalvularisCribrostomoides subglobosusCyclammina cancellataDiscammina compressaDorothia pseudoturrisEggerella sp.Eggerelloides advenaEggerelloides scaberEhrenbergina serrataElphidium crispumElphidium fichtelianumElphidium maoriumEponides repandusFissurina sp.Fursenkoina complanataGlobobulimina doliolumGlobobulimina turgidaGlobulina gibbaGoesella cylindricaGyroidina orbicularisHanzawaia boueanaHeterolepa bradyiHoeglundina elegansHomalohedra borealisHomalohedra williamsoniHormosina globuliferaHyalinea balthicaHyrrokkin sarcophagaKarreriella bradyiLachlanella bicornisLaevidentalina communisLagena gibberaLagena striataLagenammina arenulataLagenammina testaceaLenticulina iotaLenticulina rotulataLenticulina sp.Lenticulina submamilligeraMarginulina glabraMarsipella elongataMartinottiella communisMelonis zaandamaeMiliolina oblongaMiliolinella sp.Neolenticulina peregrinaNonion fabumOridorsalis umbonatusPararotalia sp.Placopsilina bradyiPlanispirinella exiguaPlanodiscorbis rarescensPlanorbulina mediterranensisPlanulina ariminensisProcerolagena gracilisProemassilina arenariaPsammosphaera fuscaPullenia subcarinataPyrgo depressaPyrgo williamsoniPyrgoella sphaeraQuinqueloculina lamarckianaQuinqueloculina viennensisQuinqueloculina sp.Rectuvigerina elongatastriataRecurvoides contortusReophax agglutinatusReophax bilocularisReophax bradyiRhabdammina abyssorumRhabdammina scabraRosalina semipunctataRosalina vermiculataRutherfordoides rotundiformisRutherfordoides sp.Sahulia barkeriSigmoilopsis schlumbergeriSiphouvigerina proboscideaSphaeroidina bulloidesSpiroloculina dilatataSpiroloculina excavataSpiroloculina tenuiseptataSpiroplectinella wrightiSpirorutilus carinatusStomatorbina concentricaTetragonostomina rhombiformisTextularia pseudotrochusTextularia truncataTextularia sp.Trifarina albatrossiTrifarina angulosaTrifarina fornasiniiTriloculina angusteoralisTriloculina fichtelianaTritaxis conicaTrochammina inflataUvigerina hispidaUvigerina mediterraneaUvigerina peregrinaUvigerina pygmaeaGiant box corerGrabGravity corerCounting >250 µm fractionMSM16/3Maria S. Merian2010-10-24T08:51:00/2010-11-16T22:07:00Datasethttps://nwv-hamburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NF_53_Mauritanian_shelf.pdf3690 data pointstext/tab-separated-valuesCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalForaminiferal assemblage data was collected from the top 0-1 cm sediment layer of 30 surface samples from the Mauritanian slope and shelf. The material was sampled with a box corer (50x50x55cm), grabs and gravity corer (6m lenght) during the expedition MSM16/3 of RV Maria S. Merian in October-November 2010. The samples range from water depths of 13 m on the shelf to 1310 m on the middle bathyal slope. They are from the inner and outer shelf, upper bathyal slope, canyons, coral mounds, the cold-water coral reef chains at 400–600 m water depth and the middle bathyal slope.
The samples were washed over a 250 µm sieve and dried. Per sample 200 benthic foraminiferal specimens were counted on species level. 154 were documented with illustrations and descriptions. The purpose of the study was to investigate the foraminiferal faunas of the Mauritanian shelf and upper slope and their association with cold water coral habitats.-17.68335-16.66166666666717.48183333333320.880116666667Arguin mud wedgeouter shelf off Banc dArguinBaie du Levriercentral outer Banc dArguinnorthern canyon area west of Banc dArguin (ROV3)southern Banc d ArguinDeep mound chainCanyon area southern Banc dArguin (ROV2)Timiris mud wedgeTimiris deep coral mound chainCanyon S of Timiris mound chainBanda moundsnorthern Banda slidesouthern Banda slide