foraminifer
foraminiferan
foram informal

Researchers from Japan have investigated rebuilding the coral reefs through introduction of foraminifer.

Often contain a picture of an inverted octopus whilst other contain a foraminifer or a dead bird.

For the Foraminifer genus see Cuneus foram.

It was originally described as Palmula, but the name was occupied by a genus of Cretaceous foraminifer first described in 1833.

Sir William Dawson's name is especially associated with Eozoon canadense, which in 1865 he described as an organism having the structure of a foraminifer.

Neoconorbina is a recent (Holocene) discorbacean foraminifer related to Rosalina with a low conical trochoidal test, circular in outline.

Globigerina bulloides is a species of heterotrophic planktonic foraminifer with a wide distribution in the photic zone of the world's oceans.

Within these intervals, the LDO is interbedded with foraminifer nannofossil ooze, a lithology characterized by sedimentation rates of the order of 2-4cmkyr -1.

When visible to the naked eye, it can be a small test (shell) of a microfossil (radiolarian or foraminifer), a phosphatized shark tooth, basalt debris or even fragments of earlier nodules.

It was described by Y. Ariunchimeg in 1996 as "Admiranda", but Ariunchimeg subsequently changed its name in 2012, after it had been discovered that Admiranda was preoccupied by a fossil foraminifer.

The upper (marine) member of the Marshalltown was formerly considered latest Campanian in age, due to the presence of the foraminifer Globotruncana calcarata; however the G. calcarata zone has since been redated as Middle Campanian in age (75-76 ma).

The base of the Langhian is defined by the first appearance of foraminifer species Praeorbulina glomerosa and is also coeval with the top of magnetic chronozone C5Cn.1n. A GSSP for the Langhian stage was not yet established in 2009.