Operculina ammonoides

Operculina ammonoides (Gronovius, 1781) - what a nice species we came across in a sample from a beach near Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia.

Find more information at Plummercell Warrnambool Field 25

How to get and collect foraminifera ?

It is not difficult to get foraminifera. Pick them at the beach or extract them from sedimentary rock.

Online is now a detailed description how to do it, from sampling in the field, extraction, picking, identifying to building a collection. So far it is only available in German :)

Go to www.foraminifera.eu/probenauf.html

Tell us about your experience.

Upcoming Exhibition Foraminifera

Foraminifera - witnesses to Earth history

The German version of this exhibition will be shown from 22nd of September till 2nd of December 2012 in Augsburg, Germany.

Find more information at
Foraminiferen - Zeitzeugen der Erdgeschichte

The exhibition may be rented for little money. There is a German and English version. It consists of 15 posters, plastics of foraminifera, binoculars with mounted samples and several other objects.

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5000 images online

On the 1st of May 2012 we added the 5000th image
to the Foraminifera.eu Database.

To find the images you are looking for we created our database-query. It allows to choose from a set of criteria in classification, locality, geological time + others.



To create the poster I chose "Elphidium" to see all the images we have.







Please consider to contribute your images and get your own web-pages within foraminifera.eu. See for example: www.foraminifera.eu/tichenor.php

Workshop Micropaleontology 10/11. September

the lectures will be in german only, practical instructions are available in english.

Workshop Mikropaläontologie in Hamburg, Germany
10/11. September 2011, der AG Mikropaläontologie
im Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein Hamburg und foraminifera.eu-Projekt



Samstag, den 10.9.2011
10:00 – 11:00 Begrüßung, Vorstellungsrunde, Erwartungen, Organisatorisches, Ausgabe
Arbeitsmaterial, Aufbau Mikroskope …
partial view
11:00 – 12:00 Vortrag Einführung in die Mikropaläontologie und ihre Arbeitsmethoden mit Diskussion

12:00 – 13.00 Bearbeitung rezenter Proben aus dem Mittelmeer, Kreide aus Lägerdorf, Kennenlernen typischer Vertreter, Nutzung der Literatur für Bestimmungen, Belegung des REM-Tellers

13:00 – 14:00 Mittagspause

14:00 – 15:00 Vortrag Foraminiferen und ihre Nutzung bei der Erdölförderung und für Umweltanalysen mit Diskussion

15:00 – 17:00 Bearbeitung Sternberger Gestein auf Foraminiferen und Bestimmung der Funde, Sichtung sortierter Plummerzellen mit 100+ Arten, Belegung des REM-Tellers

17:00 – 17:30 Schlussrunde
optional ab 19:30 Uhr gemeinsames Abendessen

Sonntag, den 11.9.2011
10:00 – 10:45 Vortrag Radiolarien mit Diskussion

10:45 – 11:30 Bearbeitung Tiefseeprobe Antarktis auf Radiolarien und Foraminiferen, Nutzung der Bestimmungsliteratur, Belegung des REM-Tellers

11:30 – 12:00 Vortrag Fotografie und REM

12:00 – 14:00 Aufnahme des REM-Tellers mit dem REM und Fertigung von optischen Fotos
In Gruppen zu 3-5 Personen, dazwischen Mittag nach Bedarf

14:00 – 14:30 Schlussrunde / offizielles Ende

14:30 – 17:00 Individuelle Beratung nach Bedarf

Costs:
Adult 25 Euro, accompanying Children under 18 free,

Each participant will get
5 samples and SEM-images from the samples processed during the workshop , Print "Göke: Einführung in die Foraminiferen, Radiolarien und Diatomeen."
The equipment will be provided during the workshop (for each participant a binocular, picking devices ...)

Register till 31st. of July 2011 by sending an email to: michael [at] foraminifera.eu. Please note, that about 22 places are available.

Exhibition Foraminifera of Northern Germany

Opening:
Saturday, 7th of August 2010 at 14.00h

Ice Age Museum Lütjenburg/Germany
www.eiszeitmuseum.de

Foraminifera objects
by artist Anna Mandel
www.annamandel.de

Contact me, if you want to organize an exhibition where you are. Michael:
michael [at] foraminifera.eu

More Info

Miocene - the genus Florilus

The Miocene epoch lasted from 23.0-5.3 Mya BC and has foraminiferal faunas closely related to recent ones. The genus Florilus is common in Miocene sediments of the shelf. Some authors placed them in Nonion.






Florilus boueanum (d´Orbigny, 1846),
Stade, Germany, Pre North Sea, Middle Miocene

















Florilus boueanum (d´Orbigny, 1846),
Gram, Denmark, Pre North Sea, Miocene








Florilus grateloupi (d´Orbigny, 1826),
Calvert Cliffs Bed 10, Maryland, USA, Miocene











Florilus chesapeakensis Gibson, 1983,
Calvert Cliffs Bed 4-9, Maryland, USA, Miocene

Incoming samples week 9-10

A core sample from Cape Hatteras with 72 single plastic bags representing 190m in depth came in. A chart on the abundance of foraminifera at all depth-levels will help to start with the most promising parts. The core ranges from recent to probably Miocene. This valuable sample definitely needs a close investigation and processing.

Incoming Samples 2010 Weeks 1+2+3

Adrian sent several 10-20g samples among which are Fleury-la-Rivière, Lutetian, near Paris France. It is his 11th mailing. I plan to send some micro-shells back.

Akira kindly promised to sent some samples from Japan => the first from that part of the World !

Kirsten from Australia offered a package of different sand-samples. She will choose the best ones.

Peneroplis planatus from Yemen - an optical image

Last year I received in a plain envelope some plummercells filled with hundreds of foraminifera from young scientist Wafaa in Sanaa, Yemen. I started with SEM images (59 so far), see www.foraminifera.eu/wafaa.html.

I think optical images are a nice addition to illustrate this diverse fauna near Socotra, Yemen in the Indian Ocean and Peneroplis planatus a nice start.

The image is taken with a simple ocular camera. Sharpness is achieved by stacking different single images

Peneroplis is very common in the East Meditteranean, Red and Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean .... You may easily get it from sand-samples.

I hope you like the image :)

Michael

More Content in 2010 on foraminifera

In 2010 I want to add more content to www.foraminifera.eu by

- featured genus pages (such as Amphistegina), Ammonia will follow

- mini lectures (a lecture on forams as indicators of pollution is under construction

- I will ask people to provide content