foraminifer
Americannoun
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foraminifers,
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foraminifera
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noun
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Origin of foraminifer
1835–45; < New Latin Foraminifera, equivalent to Latin forāmin-, stem of forāmen foramen + -ifera; see -i-, -fer
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Now, an international group of researchers have discovered a previously unknown species of large foraminifer, shedding new light on the ecological evolution and biodiversity of coral reefs in the Ryukyu Islands.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023
The Laurentian rocks have yielded only one fossil—a large foraminifer named Eozoon Canadense.
From Geology by James Geikie
Beds of gneiss and quartzite, with interstratified limestones, in one of which, 1000 feet thick, occurs a foraminifer, Eozoon Canadense, the oldest known fossil.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
In these rocks the nucleus of every minute spherule is seen, under the microscope, to consist of a small rhizopod or foraminifer.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
Sir William Dawson’s name is especially associated with the Eozoon canadense, which in 1864 he described as an organism having the structure of a foraminifer.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
The method examines the chemistry of ancient foraminifera, microscopic marine organisms whose remains are preserved in seafloor sediments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
In addition, the size of foraminifera fossils proved to be a fundamental piece of the puzzle.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024
By creating burrows, foraminifera are engineering their entire ecosystem at a small-scale, allowing them to live deeper in the sediment where there is usually no oxygen.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 11, 2023
He added foraminifera to these samples and every few days measured how the oxygen levels changed at different depths.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 11, 2023
Like the foraminifera that persist in the ocean depths, the great majority of mankind have remained, but slightly, if at all, modified; thus illustrating the truth of the doctrine of evolution in their psychical history.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd
The study focuses on three major groups of calcifying plankton: coccolithophores, foraminifers, and pteropods.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026
At one moment he has to deal with the bones of some large mammal scattered through a deposit of superficial gravel, at another time with the minute foraminifers and ostracods of an upraised sea-bottom.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
Among living foraminifers, Lagena, Globigerina, and Nodosaria are known in the later Cambrian or early Ordovician.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
To the west its waters were clear and on its floor the crumbled remains of foraminifers gathered in heavy accumulations of calcareous ooze,— the white chalk of France and England.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
Certain small foraminifers, for example, met with in some of the oldest formations, do not seem to differ from species which are still living.
From Geology by James Geikie
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