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The tetrazoic is foraminiferous, from the abundance of coral animalcula, called foraminifera, or polythalmia, which it contains.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
These seed-vessels were called, before their true nature was known, gyrogonites, and were supposed to be foraminiferous shells.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
These deposits are highly fossiliferous in parts, and contain the remains of pteropods, lamellibranchs and echinoderms, embedded in a foraminiferous deposit mixed with volcanic debris, like the deep-sea muds brought up by 134 the “Challenger.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
Rhabdamminina, rab-da-mi-nī′na, n. a group of marine imperforate foraminiferous protozoans.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
