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On the Web
- Kane Scientific Company - Sells models of forams for use in education. Site includes descriptions of foraminifera fossils and photos of models.
- Foraminifera Collections at the Smithsonian - Information about collections available at the National Museum of Natural History's Department of Paleobiology.
- Geomarine Research - Information about a New Zealand company engaged in the study of modern and fossil marine foraminifera. Includes abstracts of publications and discussions of research methods.
- Foraminifera - Introduction to the taxonomic group, from University of California Museum of Paleontology.
- Catalogue of Orbitolinid Foraminifera - Database on Orbitolinidae (Early to early Late Cretaceous) including taxonomy, fossil localities and references.
- New Zealand Neogene - Summaries of current research by New Zealand foram workers. Includes abstracts of publications, bibliographies, lists of projects, and progress reports.
- Extant planktic foraminifera and the physical environment in the Atlantic and Indian oceans - This atlas published by Heinz Hilbrecht is based on CLIMAP and Levitus's (1982) data. The information is stored on a server of the NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC).
- Hallock Muller, P. - Reef foraminifera morphology and paleoecology, University of Southern Florida.
- Patterson, T. - Foraminifera, Carleton University.
- Paleo-Data, Inc. - Micropaleontological consultants specializing in Gulf of Mexico and onshore Gulf Coast benthic/planktonic foraminifera and calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy.
Wikipedia Articles
- Shorea foraminifera - Shorea foraminifera is a species of plant in the Dipterocarpaceae family. It is endemic to Brunei.
- Foraminifera - Precambrian - Recent
- Test (biology) - A test is a term used to refer to the shell of sea urchins, and also the shell of certain microorganisms, such as testate foraminifera and testate amoebae.
- Punctuated gradualism - ... macroevolutionary hypothesis that refers to a species that has "relative stasis over a considerable part of its total duration [and] underwent periodic, relatively rapid, morphologic change that did not lead to lineage branching". GeoScienceWorld article Evidence for punctuated gradualism in the late Neogene Globorotalia tumida lineage of planktonic foraminifera
- Soritacea - The Soritacea are a group of miliolid benthic foraminifera with porcellaneous tests. They take on a variety of growth forms but typically have many chambers.