#ForamFriday

Michael HesemannForaminifera
2023-12-21

Thanks to all contributors! Check it out at www.foraminifera.eu

Michael HesemannForaminifera
2023-10-20

For our Catalog of modern Greater North Sea foraminifera we found this Homalohedra williamsoni. Send us your material to fill gaps: www.foraminifera.eu/cns.php

2023-08-25

Technically, that's what we call "a lot of forams".
#ForamFriday
Lots of happy Peneroplis...

Centaines de foraminifères (Peneroplis sp.) sur une roche.Centaines de foraminifères (Peneroplis sp.) sur une roche. Gros plan
Michael HesemannForaminifera
2022-12-30

I found these hats quite often in a Chattian (Upper Oligocene) sediment sample from Doberg, Germany. Which genus / species could it be ? ...

2022-12-23

Here is your holiday themed #foramfriday.
Ginger biscuit made by a student.
#foraminifera

Calcarina shaped ginger cookies
IODP 🌊🚢🌏ANZIC@mastodon.world
2022-12-02

🗓🔬🐚Happy #ForamFriday!

Check out this winning entry to The Micropaleontologist Society calendar competition! #TMSocCalendar23

🎨🖌️illustration of different microscopic techniques of the benthic #foraminifera, Cibicides aknerianus, by María Yolanda. This Southeast Pacific #foram is very important in #paleoceanography!

Calendars are still available 👉tmsoc.org/tms-calendars-2023/
Proceeds go to help the support #research, #travelgrants & #conferences.
#microscopes #illustration #microfossil

illustration of the same Foram, five times, but how they look under each different microscopic techniques.

 #foraminifera, Cibicides aknerianus, by María Yolanda.
Alix Cagealixcage
2022-11-18

My first post on Mastodon for ! Eggerelloides scaber (Williamson, 1858) - a dominant in the inner basin of Loch Sunart. x85 for both images. Images show microspheric and megalospheric growth.

SEM image of an agglutinated benthic foraminifera Eggerelloides scaber (Williamson, 1858)  with microspheric growth resulting in a very pointy specimen with rapidly increasing chamber size.SEM image of an agglutinated benthic foraminifera Eggerelloides scaber (Williamson, 1858)  with megalospheric growth resulting in a specimen that has a more rounded apex and a gentle increase in chamber size.

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