Today I found this planktonic foraminifera in a Turonian slab. It was sheared off by glaciers somewhere, transported and eventually dumped north of Berlin. Is it Archaeoglobigerina cretacea ? Maybe a professional can tell. // See more at https://foraminifera.eu/collection.php?collname=Ralf-Rainer+Schulz&aktion=suche
Listen to my talk on our physical Foraminifera Collection on youtube at:
These days we have passed the 23,000 mark in our database. A big thank you to our contributors from all over the world for sending sediments, specimens, images and help with identifications. #foraminifera #microfossils #fossils #paleontology #MarineLife #MarineScience
Thanks to everyone who came out to help us sort Eocene microfossils - it was our largest turnout yet!
Our next event will be Sunday, January 26 from 1 - 3:30pm at Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Rm. B140. Everyone is welcome to come help find fossils!
See albertapaleo.org/events for more details.
Foraminifera or just pseudofossil rock chips ???
I picked about 50 specimens from 10g of a disintegrated Jurassic shale. I think these are compressed agglutinated forams. Whats your opinion ? #foraminifera #microfossils #Jurassic #fossils #MarineLife #paleontology
I found several shallow water foraminifera as this Ammonia in a sand from the German Pre-Alps. They prove its marine origin from the Paratethys ocean. The Paratethys covered about 18mya ago vast areas north of the Alps. #foraminifera #MarineLife #fossils #microfossils #Miocene
How NASA Can Avoid A False Positive Mars Microfossil Detection
by Bruce Dorminey for Forbes, including insights by Sandra Siljestrom, astrobiologist and geochemist, and ‘sample shepherd’ on Perseverance
Australian quaternarists and micropalaeontologists - applications for the Leanne Armand Travel Award are now open. Details on the #AQUA website: https://aqua.org.au/sample-page/the-leanne-armand-travel-award/
Beautiful #Foraminifera - millions of years old, silicified and mineral stained. Stunning. Mother Nature is the best artist #microscopy #microfossils
Bizarre Fossils Are Neither Plant Nor Animal, But a 'Weird Fusion' of Life
https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-fossils-are-neither-plant-nor-animal-but-a-weird-fusion-of-life #euglenids #eukaryotes #microfossils #cysts
Thanks to all contributors! Check it out at www.foraminifera.eu #foraminifera #protists #ForamFriday #microfossils #fossils
So I started with 3g of sediment and this is what I have left after an acid bath in HCl to get rid of carbonates, separating out the clays, baking the organics out at 500 degrees C and separating out the silica 
But it’s ok! Gonna have lots of microfossils to look at! #phytoliths #sponges #diatoms #microfossils #PalaeoenvironmentalReconstruction #Science
Be a #scientist they said. It will be fun and interesting! Here I am watching beakers of brown dirt settle… I do jest. While sometimes processing lots of brown sediments can get a bit boring, it’s well worth the effort to extract those bits of silica that can tell us a bit about our ancient past and environment :)) #sediments #microfossils
Nicholas Shackleton, English geologist & paleoclimatologist, died #OTD 2006. He was a pioneer in the use of mass spectrometry to determine changes in climate as recorded in the oxygen isotope composition of calcareous #microfossils #histsci
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/microfossils-and-the-ocean-history/
Happy birthday Esther Applin (middle)
—in 1921 Esther suggested that #microfossils could be used in stratigraphy, but was ridiculed: “Gentlemen, here is this chit of a girl... telling us that we can use #Foraminifera to determine the age of formation. You know that it can’t be done”
Oh yes it can! On top of being used to date crucial events in our planet's history, #Forams have revolutionized our understanding of past climates, & has created thousands of jobs globally! #WomenInSTEM
So I did an #introduction post when I was on the mastodon online server. But now that I'm on flipping.rocks, I've lost that, so...
Hi there! I am a #palaeoecologist and #naturalist. I work with #microfossils to understand ancient and modern environments/climate and human modification to these environments (#ClimateChange #ClimateJustice). I am also interested in #wildlife, and spend a lot of time recording and #photographing #LondonWildlife - #plants, #invertebrates #mammals #fungi etc. I’d love to meet like-minded people :)
#Microfossils may be evidence #life began ‘very quickly’ after #Earth formed | #Fossils | The Guardian
Use of #Foraminifera in Climate Science
The understanding of past changes in #climate and #ocean circulation is to a large extent based on information from marine sediments.
Marine deposits contain a variety of #microfossils, which archive (paleo)-environmental information, both in their floral and faunal assemblages and in their stable isotope and trace element compositions...
