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INTRODUCTION TO FORAMINIFERA

• What Are Microfossils? on the website of The University of California Museum of Paleontology

• The University of California Museum of Paleontology Introduction to the Foraminifera [1]

• Foraminifera: Mini Lectures of foraminifera.eu

• Short Treatise on Foraminiferology by Bellier et al. (2010)

• MICROPALEONTOLOGY: About Foraminifera

• University College London's micropalaeontology site MIRACLE Overview of foraminifera and other microfossil groups, including many high-quality SEMs.

• General overview of foraminifera on the GNS website

• Martin Langer on foraminifera: http://www.paleontology.uni-bonn.de/paleontology/langer/FORAMINI.HTM
  • What are Foraminifera?
  • How old are Foraminifera?
  • Global Ocean Carbonat Production of Foraminifera

• URBINO SUMMER SCHOOL IN PALEOCLIMATOLOGY, 2005, DEEP-SEA BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA by Ellen Thomas http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu/BFhandout.htm

• Benthic Foraminifers by U.S. Geological Survey http://geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo/forams_b.shtml

• SKELETAL GRAINS: Foraminifera USC Sequence Stratigraphy Web

• Other foram-related links on Ocean World

• The life and death of planktonic foraminifera- Copyright © NIWA Science 2006 - PDF

• Micropalaeontological links http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/links.html

• Foraminiferans in Reefkeeping

• Foraminifera in Classic Encyclopedia based on the 1911 Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

• Foraminifera in The Project Gutenberg EBook of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6

• Foraminifera evolution - major events

FORAMINIFERA: HISTORY OF INVESTIGATIONS

• A short story of foraminifera - ifremer

• The Origin of Applied Micropalaeontology: Jozef Grzybowski's Biostratigraphical studies of the Carpathian Oilfields in the 1890's - follow the Jozef Grzybowski link

MICROPALAEONTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES

Sampling and preparation techniques

• PREPARATION TECHNIQUES FOR USE OF FORAMINIFERA IN THE CLASSROOM http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/Snyder&Huber.html by SCOTT W. SNYDER & BRIAN T. HUBER

• Micropalaeontological sampling, processing and counting by Murray, J. & Rohling, E.J. et al. - PDF

• The Collection and Mounting of Foraminifera by Brian Darnton http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov98/bdforam3.html

• Micropaleontological slides:
  • CELKA - http://www.microslides.eu/microslides Celka produces twelve kinds of cardboard micro-slides for the storage of foraminifers and other microfossils.

Presentation and documentation techniques

• QUICKTIME VR: A POWERFUL NEW ILLUSTRATIVE TOOL FOR MICROPALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH by Patrick D. Lyons and Laurence Head, Palaeontologica Electronica, 1998, vol. 1, Issue 2. Have a look at the results and ROTATE the QuickTime VR Object of Elphidium crispum.

• Chromo-stereoscopy as a tool in micropalaeontological investigations: echinoderms as a case study by Andrzej Boczarowski, Studia Geologica Polonica, 124: 21-36. Why not to use it for foraminifera?

• Mikrofossilien in der "dritten Dimension" – neue Wege in der Paläontologie by Harald Andruleit (BGR, Hannover)

Identification

• CLUES TO RECOGNIZING MICROFOSSILS IN SMEAR SLIDES

BIOLOGY of FORAMINIFERA

• The star*sand project, part of the micro*scope system of websites, is a cooperative database of information about foraminifera.

• The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History The largest type collection of foraminifera in the world.

• Foraminifera in BowserLab

• Reticulopodia in action: Gliding movement and phagocytosis in a foraminifer (Ammonia beccarii)

• MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY & OCEANOGRAPHY:
  • Molecular Phylogeny of Amoeboid Protists by Jan Pawlowski http://www.unige.ch/sciences/biologie/biani/msg/Amoeboids/Home.html
  • foramBARCODING Molecular Database of Foraminifera - The foramBarcoding project coordinated by Jan Pawlowski and Maria Holzmann from Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva.
  • FORAMS DNA WEBPAGE by Jan Pawlowski http://www.unige.ch/sciences/biologie/biani/msg/people/Jan/forams.htm
  • MOLECULAR OCEANOGRAPHY by Colomban de Vargas: http://marine.rutgers.edu/dmcs/ms309/
  • EVOLUTION VON EINZELLERN ZU MULTIZELLULÄREN ORGANISMEN PALÄONTOLOGISCHE UND MOLEKULARBIOLOGISCHE ASPEKTE by Maria Holzmann (PDF-presentation in German)

FORAMINIFERA AS PROXIES

• Foraminifers as bioindicators by Heidi L. Crevison and Palmela Hallock on the website of College of Marine Science, USF
• Fabulous Foraminifera: examining past climates using microscopic marine organisms by Barbara Manighetti & Lisa Northcote in Water & Atmosphere, Vol. 8(3), © NIWA 2000

• Recent British Intertidal Foraminifera http://http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/ian.boomer/gallery/modern-IT-foraminifera.htm

• Benthic Foraminifers by U.S. Geological Survey http://geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo/forams_b.shtml

• MicroWorld - Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum http://hoopermuseum.earthsci.carleton.ca/11.html

• Reconstructing Palaeotemperature from Planktonic Foraminifera Counts - MARGO

• PALEOBATHYMETRIC MODELLING & FORAMINIFERAL MORPHOTYPES

Foraminifera as pollution proxies

• Benthic foraminifera distribution in high polluted sediments from Niterói Harbor (Guanabara Bay), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Vilela et al. (2004)

• Environmental quality and preservation - Chemical pollutants and toxic effects on benthic organisms, Biscayne Bay: A pilot study preceding Florida Everglades restoration. USGS Open-File Report, 2002 - PDF

CLASSIFICATION

• Classification of Foraminifera

• Wikipedia (en)

• Wikipedia (fr)

• Foraminifera; their classification and economic use by Joseph A. Cushman (1928)

• The Year 2000 Classification of the Agglutinated Foraminifera by Michael A. Kaminski

REFERENCES ON THE FORAMINIFERIDA

• FORAMREFS compiled by Michael A. Kaminski

MULTIMEDIAL RESOURCES

• Online Mediatheque Prototype of IWF Knowledge and Media includes a series of clips focused on the biology of foraminifera - Type "foraminifera" into Quick Search Filter to see 7 previews of the movies by Rudolf Röttger (Kiel) Christoph Hemleben (Tübingen), and Michael Spindler (Tübingen) in German or English versions. Other movies are also available.
• PREVIEW: Introduction to Protists, The Biology of Protists etc.
• From modern faunas to facies interpretation by Jenö Nagy & Tore Joranger (University of Oslo)
• Biofacies and stratigraphy of sedimentary sequences by Jenö Nagy & Tore Joranger (University of Oslo)

MEDIA ON FORAMINIFERA

• New discovery in Nature: animals can breathe without oxygen "... some foraminifera can breathe nitrate when they inhabit environments with no oxygen."