Mallorca foraminifera - optical images

Mallorca foraminifera - optical images

 

Elphidium jenseni (=Elphidium complanatum)   Size: 0,6mm

New contributor Roland emailed quite detailed optical images of forams found at the beach of Alcudia, Mallorca - a sample I sent him. We intend - as time allows - to portray samples of the Meditteranean by imaging the abundant species and do some basic counting.

Find more images at

http://www.foraminifera.eu/alcudia.php

 

Michael

5500 images in the database

Our image database surpasses 5500 images.

After 4 years of existence our image database has grown substantially due to the great support of contributors and the highly motivated team. 2012(+2011) we achieved so far our goal to add 4 images a day. To keep the webpage still maneuverable we created different database queries and graphical interfaces

Database Queries:
www.foraminifera.eu/querydb.php
www.foraminifera.eu/taxo.php

Interfaces:
genus: www.foraminifera.eu/AtoC.php
locality: www.foraminifera.eu/locality.html
fossil-record: http://www.foraminifera.eu/foraminifera-fossil-record.html

Please tell us what we should improve and consider to contribute your images.

The locality-interface allowing to choose localities by clicking on the circels on the map covers all oceans. (Example North Atlantic / Western Mediterranean:

579 Forams from Greece on a single slide

The huge foram collection of coworker Karl-Otto Bock is housed in single plummercell-slides, where forams are neatly arranged in single fields. We have started to put his collection online with this plummercell slide. It is filled primarily with miliolid specimens found at the beach of Malia on Crete - a Greece island. The single fields are clickable and are integrated into the foraminifera.eu database.



To see more follow the link and click on the single fields of the

Plummercell slide from Malia, Crete

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