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The study focuses on three major groups of calcifying plankton: coccolithophores, foraminifers, and pteropods.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026

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 Geikie, James

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 Norton, William Harmon

Rotā′lia, the typical genus of Rotaliid�, small foraminifers of rotate figure.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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