Directory of Foraminifera Resources

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Members of the phylum Foraminifera are single-celled amoeboid protists, typically with a shell or test. Known affectionately as forams, they are abundant all over the ocean, most living on the sea bottom but some are part of the marine plankton. There are about 4,000 known species.

Subcategories

• Fossils

Resources in This Category

• Finding the Chalk Makers: The Foraminifera

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjul98/bdforam1.html
  Information and photographs of the organisms responsible for chalk deposits, how to find them, prepare and observe them under the microscope.

• Foram Gallery

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar00/forwim.html
  A collection of photographs of members of the Foramenifera with information about each.

• Foraminifera

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/foram/foramintro.html
  Introduction to the taxonomic group and information on their appearance in the fossil record where they can be used to date rocks, their life history, ecology and morphology.

• Foraminifera

  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/foram.html
  Information on these single celled organisms with diagrams and images.

• Foraminifera

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foraminifera
  Information from Wikipedia on these amoeboid protists with a test or shell, their diversity and life cycle and use as fossils in dating rocks.

• Geomarine Research

  http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~bw.hayward/
  Information about a New Zealand company engaged in the study of modern and fossil marine foraminifera. Includes abstracts of publications and discussions of research methods.

• Giant of the Protozoa

  http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03windows/background/education/media/03win_giants.pdf
  Provides a lesson plan for a course on xenophyophores and how they interact with other species, provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

• Gromia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gromia
  Information from Wikipedia on this genus of marine and freshwater amoeboids, closely resembling some foraminiferans, but sometimes classified under the phylum Cercozoa.

• Gromia, Gromia wherefore art thou Gromia?

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artoct99/gromia.html
  Article by Richard Howey on the discovery of this strange organism among the algae in his aquarium.

• Image Gallery

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artfeb04/cbforam.html
  Photographs of about twenty species of foraminifera collected from an estuary in the Netherlands.

• Miniacina miniacea

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjul02/bdforamm.html
  Photographic study by Brian Darnton of this curious foraminiferan from the Mediterranean Sea.

• The Collection and Mounting of Foraminifera

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov98/bdforam3.html
  Information on how the amateur collector can find Foraminifera on the shore and can clean and mount them for display.

• What are Foraminifera?

  http://bprc.osu.edu/foram/whatarefor.htm
  Forams as they are usually known, are abundant in all the oceans. Information on their biology, what they eat, what eats them, and their use in dating rocks and as environmental indicators.

• Xenophyophore

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophyophore
  Article from Wikipedia on these strange marine organisms which genetic studies suggest should be included in the phylum Foraminifera.

• Xenophyophores, the Giants of the Protozoan World

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov98/xeno1.html
  Article by Dave Walker on these large single celled organisms found deep in the ocean.

 

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