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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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Description: The white agglutinating foraminifera is Pyrgo sp. and the brown agglutinating foraminifera is Cribrostomoides subglobosum. The latter made made up about 98% of the sieved macrofauna samples (sieved on a 0.50 mm sieve) at Dalsnuten. Item Type: Image Title: Pyrgo sp. Copyright: SERPENT project Species: Pyrgo sp. Site: Atlantic -- Norwegian -- Dalsnuten Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): 1452 Latitude: 66 deg 34' 33" N Longitude: 3 deg 32' 46" E Countries: Norway -- Norwegian Sector Habitat: Benthic Rig: Aker Barents Project Partners: Shell, Aker Drilling, Oceaneering ROV: Magnum 142 Deposited By: Dr K Kroeger Deposited On: 24 June 2011
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Biloculina comata.
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The Latin word "glomus" means "a ball of yarn". Glomospira species make a test that has a single chamber in the center, surrounded by a very long tubular second chamber that winds around it. Sample collected in an inlet of the Oslofjord, Norway. Image courtesy of Elisabeth Alve, University of Oslo. Originally published in J. Foram. Res. 16: 261-284; used with permission.
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Cornuspira planorbis.
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Vertebralina mucronata.
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Orbitolites tenuissimus, Carpenter MSS..
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Fabularia discolithes (Defraroe).
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Miliola tenera (M.Sch.)-1, Rotalia veneta (M. Sch.)-2, Cornuspira planorbis (M.Sch).-3.
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Cycloputeolina discoidea (Flint, 1899). Photomicrograph of early coil in specimen figured in Flint, 1899, Plate 49, fig. 2 (left image). Uncatalogued slide F-4446 in Cushman Collection of Foraminifera, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
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Extreme macro: take a good binocular microscope, a good camera and just focus your microfossils ;)
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Pyrgo williamsonifound on the shelf of Greenland at 192m depthrecentSend me your sand or rock ! I extract the foraminifera and shoot the images for free. Info at
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Live individual of the foraminiferan Sorites dominicensis attached to a blade of turtle grass (Thalassia testudinum) from Belize
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Live individuals of the foraminiferans Archaias angulatus and one specimen of Coscinospira (=Peneroplis) antillarum from Belize
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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Triloculina (try-lock-you-lean-a) is an intertidal benthic foraminifer, with a small number of elongate chambers. Test usually said to be calcareous (porcellanous) but is brown coloured. With several major chambers. Pseudopodia mostly arise from the aperture (left). Phase contrast.
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This species is often found in Explorers Cove, a relatively quiet and undisturbed area on the coast of the Ross Sea. Image courtesy of Gudmundur Gudmundsson, Icelandic Institute and Museum of Natural History. This image was originally published in J. Foram. Res. 32:308-318, and is used with permission.
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Hauerina circinata.
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Orbiculina adunca.
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Pyrgo williamsonifound on the shore of SpitsbergenrecentSend me your sand or rock ! I extract the foraminifera and shoot the images for free. Info at
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