Foraminifera Gallery - illustrated catalog, Foraminifera.eu Project

Foraminifera Gallery - illustrated catalog
_{Welcome to the illustrated catalog of the Foraminifera.eu Project, which wants to build a link between science and community.}
Send us your sand or rock sample and we extract forams and shoot images for free. Contact us

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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 20th of May 2013: 6768 forams and new:
Rügen, Germany, Maastrichtian

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Adelosina schreibersi (d'Orbigny, 1846) Badenian, Miocene Letkes, Hungary	Baculogypsina sphaerulata (Parker and Jones, 1860) recent Island of Taketomi	Reophax agglutinatus Cushman, 1913 recent Reykjanes Ridge

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	Beauty of Nature

HMS Challenger Collection
	April 2013 online and searchable: 109 (of 115) plates 1468 drawings [more]

Free Introduction to Forams

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

	Forams in the Sternberger Gestein

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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