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The foraminifera.eu lab wants to foster the interest in forams. We are non-profit and post only about our activities. Michael Hesemann
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Help with ID needed. This specimen is from the Tortonian (Miocene) of Northern Germany/Denmark. Is it Globigerinella obesa ?
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Upper Cretaceous foraminifera from glacier-displaced strata near Rostock, Northeastern Germany. They were collected by Ralf-Rainer Schulz. We took the first images, which can be seen at foraminifera.eu/collection.p...
#foraminifera #microfossils #paleontology #Cretaceous
August 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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I found this planktic foraminifera in a Turonian slab. It was sheared off by glaciers, transported + dumped north of Berlin. Is it Archaeoglobigerina cretacea ? Maybe a professional can tell. // See foraminifera.eu/collection.p...

#foraminifera #microfossils #fossils #paleontology #Cretaceous
June 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Listen to my talk on our physical Foraminifera Collection on youtube at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX3K...
#foraminifera #microfossils #fossil #MarineLife #paleontology #MarineScience #palaeontology #shell #fossils
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April 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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These days we have passed the 23,000 mark in our database. A big thank you to all contributors from all over the world for sending sediments, specimens, images and help with identifications. #foraminifera #microfossils #fossils #MarineLife #paleontology #MarineScience
February 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Foraminifera or just pseudofossil rock chips ???
I picked about 50 specimens from 10g of a disintegrate Jurassic shale. I think these are compressed agglutinated forams. Whats your opinion ? #foraminifera #microfossils #Jurassic #fossils #MarineLife #paleontology
January 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I found several shallow water foraminifera as this Ammonia in a sand from the German Pre-Alps. They prove its marine origin from the Paratethys ocean. The Paratethys covered about 18mya ago vast areas north of the Alps. #foraminifera #MarineLife #fossils #microfossils #Miocene
December 24, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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Today under the microscope aged ~155.000.000 years old: The foraminifera Epistomina ornata (I think) from the Kimmeridgian, Dorset coast, UK. See more at foraminifera.eu/single.php?n...

#foraminifera #microfossil #micropalaeontology #Jurassic
December 17, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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One of my fave agglutinated #foraminifera Recurvoidella bradyi (Robertson, 1891; superseded Haplophragmoides bradyi) x180 from Loch Sunart, Scotland. Amazes me how #forams are so particular about grain mineralogy & size. This one has a smooth, shiny test of tiny grains & is usually a browny-orange.
SEM image of an agglutinated benthic foraminifera
December 6, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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Kimmeridge Clay Foraminifera. Check out our interactive online poster, which also hangs in the Etches Collection in Kimmeridge. Dorset, UK:
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#foraminifera #jurassic #microfossils #paleontology #fossils
December 3, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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We are looking for samples (20-50g) from the English Channel to enlarge our catalog. Image: The foraminifera Elphidium from Swanage, UK.
Our catalog of North Sea forams contains 1000+ figured specimens: foraminifera.eu/cns.php

#foraminifera #MarineLife #MarineBiology #MarineEcology #NorthSea
November 26, 2024 at 11:25 AM
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I am eager to build a community of marine educators/communicators, and ocean literacy researchers and practitioners here. I created this starter pack. If I included you and you want to be removed, let me know! Reply if you want to be added. Let's see if we can grow the #marineeducationsky
November 16, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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the foraminifera Hyrrokkin, feeding on corals.
Read my paper on foraminifera associated with cold water corals off Mauritania: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#MarineLife #CoralScience #foraminifera #Mauritania #marinebiology
November 20, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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Happy #ForamFriday here's a Hantkenina australis, just for you
A scanning electron micrograph of Hantkenina australis. It's a planispiral planktic foraminifera with tubulospines at the end of its chambers, the last of which are curved backwards.
November 15, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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The foraminifera Nodosaria lagenifera. See more at foraminifera.eu/collection.p...
#foraminifera #MarineLife
November 20, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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Fica aqui uma fotinha de uma espécie linda.
Cornuspira foliacea (Philippi, 1844) é rara mas quando aparece 😍😍
#DCBR #foraminifera
foto de uma concha espiral, branca com tons de marrom claro. Escala 500 micrometros.
September 4, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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The foraminifera Amphistegina, common in the Florida shelf. See foraminifera.eu/single.php?n... #foraminifera #marinelife #shelf #florida #protist
November 20, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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Some creatures build their homes on a quartz pebble. See more at foraminifera.eu/single.php?n...
#foraminifera #MarineLife #NorthSea #Science
November 20, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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Thanks to our contributors we passed 22000 entries. Check it out at Foraminifera.eu #protistsonsky #MarineLife #Foraminifera
November 20, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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For our Catalog of modern Greater North Sea foraminifera we found this Homalohedra williamsoni. Send us your material to fill gaps: foraminifera.eu/cns.php #foraminifera #ForamFriday #NorthSea
November 20, 2024 at 6:16 PM