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What are Foraminifera?

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Over hundreds of millions of years these tiny creatures have swarmed the ocean bestowing to the planet their exquisite dwellings, a smidgen of which was once fashioned into the Egyptian Pyramids

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Foraminifera Gallery - illustrated catalog
_{Welcome to the illustrated catalog of the Foraminifera.eu Project, which wants to build a link between science and community.}
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Foraminifera form a considerable part of Earth biomass and are in the fossil record since at least 542.000.000 B.C., but are mainly ignored by the public. With this non-commercial project we want to foster the interest in these precious and basal forms of life. Try the illustrated Taxonomy Guide Online 19th of March 2013: 6415 forams and new: Rügen, Germany, Maastrichtian

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Neoflabellina reticulata (Reuss, 1851) Maastrichtian, Cretaceous Rügen, Germany	Globulina gibba d'Orbigny, 1846 recent Ile de Porquerolles, France	Elphidium limpidum Ho, Hu et Wang, 1965 recent Bohai Sea, China

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	Beauty of Nature

HMS Challenger Collection
	December 2012 online and searchable: 104 (of 115) plates 1426 drawings [more]

Free Introduction to Forams

	Key to Genera
	classify your specimens by selecting typical features from drawings

micropaleontology
- the major journal for scientific papers on fossil and recent foraminifera.

Paleozoic Foraminifera

Thanks to Dr. James E. Conkin and Prof. Barbara M. Conkin we are now able to work on Paleozoic Foraminifera. We started with Carboniferous foraminifera. [more]

	Mikhalevich Classification

Type	Specimens
	A type specimen is the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made. Thanks to Prof. Michael A. Kaminski and Dr. Claudia G. Cetean we are able to show 64 type specimens in the collections of the Natural History Museum London.   [more]

The Plummercell Slide Collection of
Karl-Otto Bock

Karl-Otto Bock collects since long foraminifera as a hobby. In the course of time he has produced 150+ plummercell slides. We found a way to bring his slides online showing each single field with just a click.      [Check it out]

Index Foraminifera

Foraminifera are commonly used as index fossils, also called marker or guide fossils. An index foraminifera may indicate from which geological time the sedimentary rock is, the foraminifera is found in. We show easily recognizable species         [more]

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Important links on Foraminifera:

• eForams: sorted lists of foraminiferal pages
• World Modern Foraminifera Database: This world database of all recent species of foraminifera ever described, is part of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)

Interesting stories behind the scenery:

• Natural History Museum London: Blog of the Curator Micropalaeontology, Department of Palaeontology: Dr. C. Giles Miller.