The Foraminifera.eu Project
Foraminifera Gallery - illustrated catalog
Online 20th of January 2020: 15.082 forams (1615 genera)
NEW:
Miliolinella subrotunda (Montagu, 1803)
Miocene, Stade, Germany
picked specimen provided by Stefan Raveling
photographed by Cai-Uso Wohler
Elphidium antonium
(D'Orbigny, 1846)
Miocene, Stade, Germany
picked specimen provided by Stefan Raveling
Pyrgo amphiconica
(Reuss, 1850)
Miocene, Stade, Germany
picked specimen provided by Stefan Raveling
photographed by Cai-Uso Wohler
Miliolinella Elphidium Pyrgo

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    Working Group
Portuguese Foraminifera
   
    Working Group, Catalogue of Portuguese Foraminifera    
HMS Challenger Collection  
Plate 41 online and
searchable:

all 115
plates

1525
drawings

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Working Group Upper Cretaceous
The fossil foraminifera of the
Tertiary basin of Vienna
Tertiary Foraminifera  Vienna Basin
              
    Sternberger Gestein    
    Lenticulina Robulus osnabrugensis    
    Key to Benthic Species    
    Key to Benthic Species
identify your specimens
from drawings
includes so far 538 species
   
    Key to Planktonic Species    
    Key to Planktonic Species
identify your specimens
from drawings
includes so far 142 species
   
    Beauty of Nature    
    Beauty of Nature    
              
    Type Specimens
in the collection of the
American Museum of
Natural History
New York

   
    Type Specimens, American Museum of Natural History

   
The Plummercell Slide Collection of
Karl-Otto Bock
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 fiel with just a click.      [Check it out]
Paleozoic 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]
   
Links
Databases:
- Mikrotax - Planktonics
- World Foraminifera Database
Basic Text:
Intro to Foraminiferology
Organisations:
- Cushman Foundation
- The Micropalaeont. Society
- Micropress Europe
- The Grzybowski Foundation
Courses:
- International School on Foraminifera


   


Basic information on foraminifera

What are foraminifera?
Foraminifera, or forams for short, are single-celled organisms that live in the open ocean, along the coasts and in estuaries. They consist of cytoplasma, which is stabilized and protected by an inner shell called test. Either they float in the water column (planktonic) or live on the sea floor (benthic). Of the approximately 6,000 species living today, only about 50 species are planktonic. It is estimated that there are about 80.000 species, which went extinct.

What do forams eat, who eats forams?
Foraminifera have varied appetites and feed on many of the organisms found in their environments: bacteria, unicellular algae such as diatoms and dinoflagellates, and even small animals such as copepods. In turn, forams are eaten by small invertebrates and fish. Because of their abundance, they are thought to be important intermediates between smaller and larger constituents of the food web.