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Meaning of "foraminifera"

Foraminifera: Plural of foraminifer, a type of single-celled organism with a shell found in marine environments
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  • Synonym of foraminifer (“any of a large group of aquatic amoeboid protists of the subphylum Foraminifera, characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm that among other things is used for catching food, often with a calcareous shell with many holes through which pseudopodia protrude”)
  • plural of foraminiferon
  • plural of foraminiferum

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Nummulites and other foraminifera also occur.
Foraminifera and why they are important.
These are the pseudopodia that are secreted by foraminifera.
Different species of foraminifera begin to dominate.
The microorganism most frequently referenced is foraminifera.
As with other amoeboids these foraminifera utilize pseudopodia.
Other organisms found at extreme depths include foraminifera.
The main species of foraminifera are described and illustrated.
Halenia is a genus of recent discorbacean foraminifera.
Thirty three benthonic foraminifera species were identified in this section.
We will be seeing fossils of marine organisms called foraminifera.
Alveolina is an extinct genus of foraminifera with an elliptic or spheric form.
Foraminifera under the binocular.
The color is therefore due to other organisms called foraminifera.
Benthic foraminifera are marine protists particularly sensitive to environmental conditions.

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It turns out all they had to do was look at the foraminifera.
From his comments on foraminifera he is considered as one of the pioneers of microbiology.
Focus on the most abundant identifiable taxa nematodes and foraminifera.
Foraminifera morphological classification.
The composition and distribution pattern of recent foraminifera were studied.
Foraminifera traveling to space.
They determined this by measuring the isotopes in the foraminifera shell.
Foraminifera are amongst the most abundant protists in benthic marine environments.
A scanning electron micrograph of the shells of tiny ocean organisms known as foraminifera.
Foraminifera present in the clays suggest a shallow brackish water environment.
Multivariate statistical analyzes and study of ecological indexes were applied to the study of foraminifera.
Benthic foraminifera can occasionally be found but planktonic foraminifera are completely absent.
Our results suggest that these factors influence the distribution of benthic foraminifera.
For the first time foraminifera take a prominent part in the marine faunas.
Size analysis of living and dead specimens showed that planktonic foraminifera were larger during summer.
Isotope ratios in fossilized foraminifera have been used to deduce the temperature of ancient seas.
Physical and chemical water mass properties also affect the distribution of living benthic foraminifera.
Keigwin subjected the foraminifera in various layers of this core to mass spectroscopic analysis.
Euglyphid testate amoebae are closely related to the Foraminifera.
Species of Foraminifera incorporate oxygen as calcium carbonate in their shells.
Cores were analyzed for assemblage composition of benthic foraminifera and isotopic composition of their shells.
A recent genetic study suggested that the xenophyophores are a specialized group of Foraminifera.
Bernhard and Edgcomb thought foraminifera might have played a role.
An interesting group of amoebas are the Foraminifera.
Calcareous fossil Foraminifera are formed from elements found in the ancient seas where they lived.
A recent genetic study suggested that the xenophyophores are a specialised group of Foraminifera.
First appearing in the Oligocene these foraminifera are found in all modern oceans.
Now they can also draw conclusions based on the analysis of molecular DNA of foraminifera.
He was an expert on Foraminifera and gives his name to Earlandite.
Her expertise is in Cenozoic to Recent planktonic and benthic foraminifera of the GoM.
The Textulariida are an order of Foraminifera that produce agglutinated shells or tests.
Studies the DNA sequences of foraminifera.
The relationship between the Foraminifera and Radiolaria is also debated.
He also specialised on fossil Foraminifera.
Recent benthic Foraminifera as sedimentation tool in the Nigerian coastal environment.

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