Ostracods - unshaven

Apparently not all Ostracods shave in the morning

Foraminifera Field work in Portugal

Field work in Portugal - 10 days in April 2016. 

Brian did a great job in choosing the localities and finding out about their stratigraphy. Now the 22kg of samples wait to be processed. 

See the results in the Catalogue of Portuguese Foraminifera at 

www.foraminifera.eu/portabout.html

Carlas Compositions of foraminifera

Carla sent us several nice compositions of Foraminifera. She is a sand-sample collector and artist from The Nethlerands.

Find more and full sized images of her at www.foraminifera.eu/carla.html

Foraminifera of Rupelian age

Dieter (Foraminifera.eu-Team) made micrographs of forams found in Rupelian (Oligocene) material from Malliss, Northern Germany
http://www.foraminifera.eu/single.php?no=1008499&aktion=suche …

A field trip will lead us to this clay-pit on the 31th of August.
Details at http://ak-ozean.de/2014aug.html

Larger Oligocene Foraminifera from France

A couple of weeks ago I received a package of 400g from Adrian - one of the few contributors for foraminifera.eu, who sends us samples. Adrian is a malacologist.
It contained quite well preservered sediments from the Oligocene (Chattian) of Southern France. Now we in Hamburg have made some SEMs and Bernard Remaud nice optical images. My identifications are Lepidocyclina sp. and Miogypsina bantamensis.
Recommendations of literature on such Oligocene/Miocene larger foraminifera are welcome and maybe send via PM.

www.foraminifera.eu/dax.php

Foraminifera.eu Newsletter 2014 is out

Our richly illustrated foraminifera.eu newsletter 2014 is out. You may get it for free via email. Just contact me. Michael Hesemann

Miocene Foraminifera - hundreds of images added

   

A mayor work on Miocene Foraminifera is the revision of D'Orbignys "The Fossil Foraminifera of the Tertiary Basin of Vienna". Its hundreds of SEM images are now integrated in our database courtesy of the Geological Survey of Austria at

www.foraminifera.eu/papsch.php

Cheers Michael

 

Foraminifera from the Santos Basin off Brazil

Foraminifera from the Santos Basin off Brazil

Micael Bergamaschi provided more than 40 SEM-images of Pleistocene age from the Santos Basin off Brazil like the Bulmina below. The images are published in


Bergamaschi, M.L., 2012: Interpretações paleoambientais do Pleistoceno Médio com base em foraminiferos bentonicos da Bacia de Santos – Brasil. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Bacharel em Ciências Biológicas) Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos – UNISINOS, São Leopoldo – RS 120p (in portuguese)

It can be downloaded  from http://www.foraminifera.eu/bergamaschi.html

7000 foraminifera illustrations online

 

These days we crossed the line of 7.000 illustrations being integrated. 

Thank you all envolved !

 Support us to crack the 10.000 !

Besides of quantity we are also working on quality. Subscribe to the Newsletter to learn more.

Michael

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Reophax agglutinatus Cushman 1913

  
a foraminifer prefering to build its test 

by using other empty foram tests 

Reophax agglutinatus Cushman 1913

More details at

www.foraminifera.eu/singleplum.php?no=1006819&aktion=suche

Adrian sends sand

 
in the mail these days was a little box from Adrian, UK - a long time contributor to the Foraminifera.eu project.

The box contains a couple of small bags with sand. A closer look through the binocular reveals that these sands mainly consist of shells, tests and fragments of bigger organism-remnants. These sands are rich in foraminifera. My estimate is that there are hundreds if not thousands of forams in each tiny bag.

The forams lived once in Scotland, Tenerife,  Malta, Crete  and Bermuda.

It gives us a lot to find und to have fun.

Great job Adrian ! 

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

Atlas of Maastrichtian Foraminifera

The Atlas of Boreal Maastrichtian Foraminifera is building up.
350+ images are added
They are accessible through the Atlas of Boreal Maastrichtian Foraminifera



The first goal will be to add about 600 images. In May 2013 the working group "Atlas of Boreal Maastrichtian Foraminifera" will meet and discuss how to move on. It is not clear, whether we have the capacity to add pages on single species with further explanations. There are several samples waiting to be processed. Lets see, which path we follow.

Michael

Google maps on foraminifera finds

Personalized google maps with flags on each locality of foram finds have been implemented. They have full functionality like zooming in and out, changing map-type ... A click on each flag opens an info-window from where a link leads to the locality-page with all images. Maps are available for the geological periods Carboniferous to recent. Please tell me, what you think about it and how it should be improved.

www.foraminifera.eu/locality.php

Newsletter 2012/2013 is out

The Newsletter 2012/2013 is out. It has 8 rich illustrated pages and tells what has happened in 2012 and what is planed 2013. Send me an email to get it. Michael [at] foraminifera.eu

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

Plummercell Slide of Greenland Shelf objects

A new plummercell slide of foraminifera and other objects from the Greenland shelf is online. It has been provided by scientists who made a cruise in the Greeland Sea on R.V. Poseidon in 1995. The material was collected with an epibenthic sledge from the bottom of the Greenland Sea at 192m water-depth. The material was sorted and the single objects glued on the 36 fields of the plummercell slide by Karl-Otto Bock.

Find the plummercell slide with clickable single fields and classified foraminifera at Plummercell slide Greenland Shelf
Michael

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.

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:

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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