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!align="left" colspan="1"| [[Image:alifeforam1.jpg|thumb|right|150px| <font size="2">Living foraminifer with radially spreading reticulopodia.  
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!align="left" colspan="1"| [[Image:alifeforam1.jpg|thumb|right|150px| <font size="1">Living foraminifer with radially spreading reticulopodia.  
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<font size="2">          ''Phot. [http://www.jamstec.go.jp/seika/pub-j/res/ress/toyofuku/toyofuku_e.html Takashi Toyofuku]'']]
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<font size="1">          ''Phot. [http://www.jamstec.go.jp/seika/pub-j/res/ress/toyofuku/toyofuku_e.html Takashi Toyofuku]'']]
 
<font size="3">Foraminifera are single-celled organisms ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protista protists]) with characteristic net-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopodia pseudopodia] called [[reticulopodia]], and organic or shell-like, agglutinated or secreted outer protective layer, called a [[test]].
 
<font size="3">Foraminifera are single-celled organisms ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protista protists]) with characteristic net-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopodia pseudopodia] called [[reticulopodia]], and organic or shell-like, agglutinated or secreted outer protective layer, called a [[test]].
  
  
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The small size of most foraminifera make them much more useful for biostratigraphic, paleo/environmental, or petroleum exploration applications than larger fossils because there can be thousands of specimens in a small sediment sample.
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The relatively small [[Shell size|size]] of tests (shells) makes foraminifera much more useful for biostratigraphic, paleo/environmental, or petroleum exploration [[APPLICATIONS|applications]] than larger fossils because there can be thousands of specimens in a small sediment sample.
 
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| [[Classification of Foraminifera]] | [[The oldest fossil foraminifera]] |
  
  
 
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== More about FORAMINIFERA: ==
 
== More about FORAMINIFERA: ==
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* '''[[FORAM-Links]]'''
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* <font size="3">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foraminifera Foraminifera in Wikipedia] <font size="2">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foraminifera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foraminifera]
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* <font size="2">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foraminifera Foraminifera in Wikipedia] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foraminifera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foraminifera]
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* Foraminifera in BowserLab:  
 
* Foraminifera in BowserLab:  
 
** <font size="2">[http://www.bowserlab.org/foraminifera/forampage2.htm http://www.bowserlab.org/foraminifera/forampage2.htm];  
 
** <font size="2">[http://www.bowserlab.org/foraminifera/forampage2.htm http://www.bowserlab.org/foraminifera/forampage2.htm];  
 
** [http://members.global2000.net/bowser/astrammina.html http://members.global2000.net/bowser/astrammina.html]
 
** [http://members.global2000.net/bowser/astrammina.html http://members.global2000.net/bowser/astrammina.html]
  
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* <font size="3">[http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/students/forams/forams_what_is.htm Foraminifera in Ocean World]
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* <font size="2">[http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/students/forams/forams_what_is.htm Foraminifera in Ocean World]
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* [[FORAM-Links]]
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* [http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu/BFhandout.htm DEEP-SEA BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA] by Ellen Thomas [http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu/BFhandout.htm http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu/BFhandout.htm]

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