Forams
Foraminifera is a phylum of single-celled protist animals. They commonly have external shells with chambers which are added during growth, but others may be a simple tube or hollow sphere. The majority of species lay on the bottom of the oceans, but some float about in the water column. Amazingly, there are some 275,000 species of forams known, both living and fossil.
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Foraminifera of the Caribbean Sea
Localities are the Exuma Islands, Eleuthera Island, and Harbour Island in the Bahamas.
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Pyrenees forams
Ypresian/Lutetian Nummulitidae fossils from South-East Pyrenees, Catalonia, Spain
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Foraminifera, Okinawa, Japan
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Foraminifera
Foraminifera are singled celled organisms living in great numbers in todays and past oceans.
They leave their inner shell (=test) in the fossil record. About 80.000 different test-types are described as species.
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Find more images at www.foraminifera.eu
The big variety and abundance of foraminiferal tests in the fossil record allows to place many rocks and sediments into a specific geological time.- Album created by Foram-Mike
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Foraminifera of the Upper Cretaceous
Foraminifera of the Cretaceous
so far covering
Europe
USA
- Album created by Foram-Mike
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Foraminifera from Calvert Cliffs MD
Foraminifera found in single beds of the Calvert Cliffs- Album created by Foram-Mike
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By Brian James Maguire · Posted
Its possible denis, its easier here in fairness as they are not that many species found on the malahide formation
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By Denis Arcand · Posted
Very nice, how do you determine the species of trilobites from Pygidium alone?
They all look alike for me
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By Philip Rutter 2 · Posted
LOL. Mine still won't. I do so love computers. I've been using them since we programmed with punch-cards. And at every stage - there are little quirks here and there. :-) Thanks!
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By Brian James Maguire · Posted
Hi philip, I didn’t do anything special, just uploaded it from my phone, i clicked on the arrow above just now and it played straight away
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By Philip Rutter 2 · Posted
Hi- That's a great video- and today its presence is confusing me. When I first ran into it, a day or two ago- it displayed just fine on the page, had the typical little click-arrow, and all worked seamlessly right in place. Had a splash screen with a thumbnail and the statement that it was a QuickTime movie. Today- nice paperclip icon, no thumbnail, and it automatically made me download all 51 megabytes before I could see anything.
My point- I tried for several days a couple weeks ago to upload an iPhone video of about the same size; on my blog space here- and it totally refused to work, ever; I had to give up.
Did you perform any magical tricks to get it to work in the first place? Mine never did; and today I am again rather desperately wanting to be able to make and show short videos here- my "whole animal" fossils are just insanely difficult to comprehend from flat photographs; which I proved to myself once again yesterday - showing all sides just gets more confusing. Trying to show transitions from side A to side B - proves endlessly disappointing.
Did you upload yours directly from the Cloud? I did not- I avoid the Cloud and uploaded (failed) from my MacBook - I got an icon saying it was there, but then when trying to play only got the message "cannot find what you're looking for." Any hints on making movies work here would be greatly appreciated!
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By C2fossils · Posted
Nice finds! And nice display frame as well!
-Cal
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By Moth.11 · Posted
Cool frame!!!
I have a display case with teeth of reptiles and fish from the Mesozoic and Paleogene. Maybe I'll post a photo on the forum someday when I have time to write a description for everyone. My laptop is broken, which makes it more difficult to complete my work. And I would also like to include the tooth of the megalosaur that I would like to buy.
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By Psittacosaurus · Posted
It is indeed very abundant. The Panda-Stegodon fauna ranges from Southern China to Southeast Asia but I believe the most fossiliferous locations are still in the Guangxi and Guizhou provinces of Southern China.
Reasons for these teeth being in the caves:
1. Carried by underground waters
2. Animal seeking shelter in here but ended up getting trapped
3. Most importantly, it's difficult for these to fossilize outside, where they can be destroyed by other animals/microorganisms/weathering. Inside the caves the temperature would be quite stable and if there are less bats, there are relatively less amount of bacteria.
Most southern Chinese caves are limestone caves, meaning that the bones get eroded but the teeth crowns are heavily calcitized and look quite awesome when placed above a flashlight.
And yes, GIgantopithecus is extremely rare. You could even consider the Guangxi and Guizhou provinces as places where it's most abundant. Even still, it rarely turns up.
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