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On the hottest day of the year (104°F) we made our field-trip to the chalk-quarry of Hoever, Northern Germany of Lower Campanian age. A local collector gave us his collection of bigger foraminifera. In one of these big Flabellinas (6000µm large) there are 1000 or more smaller foraminifera, like Heterolicids.
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Here is the first ostracode that I have ever found... YAY!!! It was found in some of the Lee Creek / Pungo formation matrix that I brought home from Aurora, NC after this year's fossil festival. The scale in the pictures is in 1/16 of an inch increments. I was totally surprised when I "stumbled across" this. Enjoy! Pictures: -Bill H.
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I just discovered micropalentology a few days ago thanks to the Palaeocast podcast. I googled around a bit to figure out how to extract microfossils from various materials. I processed a kg or so of clay derived from Mississippian sandstone in Arkansas and am sorting through the reside now. I've already found a bunch of foraminifera, a crinoid stem section, and other microfossils I can't identify. Now that I have the fossils, how the heck to I go about identifying them? I got a copy of Armstrong & Brasier's "Microfossils" from the library today, but haven't had a chance to sit down with it. Are there any other books or resources that would also be useful? Are there any good general guides to microfossils? All I seem to find online are very basic line drawings with a single example of any given group, which to me doesn't seem particularly useful.
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From the album: Foraminifera
Globotruncana linneiana (d'Orbigny, 1839) spiral side indicative for Campanian to Upper Maastrichtian found reworked on the beach near Tunis, Tunisia http://www.foraminifera.eu/miliane.php© © Foram-Mike
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From the album: Foraminifera
Globotruncana linneiana (d'Orbigny, 1839) umbilical side indicative for Campanian to Upper Maastrichtian found reworked on the beach near Tunis, Tunisia http://www.foraminifera.eu/miliane.php© © Foram-Mike
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From the album: Foraminifera
Nodosaria aspera found in Laegerdorf, Germany aged Campanian© Stefan Raveling / Michael Hesemann
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Fossil Forams –our smallest but most numerous fossils, Moap Valley Progress, January 2, 2103 http://mvprogress.co...-fossils/print/ or http://mvprogress.co...merous-fossils/ Best wishes, Paul H.
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Dear All, I have these two pictures that I took it from my sample of Pliocene microfossils, but am not sure about them. Could you please help me to identify them: the firs one is transparent wall (hyaline) i think, elongated with narrows end in both sides: the second picture: Cheers, Majed
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Herb send me some grams of sediment from Campanian to Maastrichtian Blue Springs, Union County MS with a rich content of foraminifera. Thanks a lot Herb. It is a great pleasure to work with your material: Heterohelix Fissurina Pseudouvigerina Gaudryina find more http://www.foraminifera.eu/herb.html As I received different samples from the Upper Cretaceous of the USA I installed a clickable map with altogether 103 images so far. see http://www.foraminif...upcretgulf.html Upper Cret. samples are welcome to enlarge these section. A more or less exact locality and the formation they are from should be known. Send a PM, if you want to share a sample. The foraminifera.eu project is non-commercial driven by naturalist enthusiasm. Thus we share our findings for free and hope to help and find others, who are fascinated too by the beauty of formanifera and the story the tell about Earth Nature. Michael
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Hi! I've found this fossils within a lake fossil deposits from central Mexico, I cant' figure out what they could be. A friend of mine tell me they seems very much like a foraminifera, but I've read that those fossils are only marine. Indeed, the lake (in central Mexico) is a little bit brackish and exists at least from Miocene/Pliocene. It contains fossils from the Blancan and Rancholabrean with volcanic activity causing the fossils to be black for the iron and manganese on them. The common fossils are mammoths, horses, camels, etc. If you can help me with this I'll be so grateful! THANKS FOR YOUR TIME! PICS
