the images are contributed by Dr.
James E. and Barbara M. Conkin
Dr. James E. Conkin and Barbara M. Conkin
Dr. James E. Conkin and
Prof. Barbara M. Conkin
Image made by Michael Popp, Louisville Fossil Blog
Dr. James E. Conkin and Prof. Barbara M. Conkin gave permission to use all their work in the Foraminifera.eu Project. We intend in 2012/2013 to make more of the outstanding work of the Conkins on Paleozoic Foraminifera accessible. We will integrate many images and drawings. Specimens from the Conkins collection will be photographed. We will place links to their articles in the journal micropaleontology.

We deeply appreciate this most valuable contribution and the great help of Michael Popp, Louisville Fossil Blog, who made the contact and this project possible. Michael Hesemann, May 2012.

search the collection

Chouteau Group
USA, Midwestern USA
Mississippian   Carboniferous

Ammobaculites
leptos

Ammodiscus
semiconstrictus

Ammovertella
lisae

Ammovertella
pikei

Blastammina
eisenacki

Hyperammina
casteri

Hyperammina
compacta

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hyperammina
constricta

Hyperammina
gracilenta

Hyperammina
nitida

Hyperammina
rockfordensis

Hyperammina
sappingtonensis

Oxinoxis
ligula

Oxinoxis
swallowi

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Psammosphaera
sp.
Pseudastrorhiza
conica

Pseudastrorhiza
delicata

Rectoammodiscus
longexsertus

Rectoseptatournayella
chappelensis

Reophax
buccina

Reophax
buccina

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Reophax
calathus

Reophax
northviewensis

Reophax
sp.
Rhabdammina
sp.
Rockfordina
lachrymosa

Saccammina
howei

Sorosphaera
papilla

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sorosphaerella
cooperensis

Sorosphaerella
cooperensis

Thurammina
congesta

Thurammina
triradiata

Thurammina
sp.
Thuramminoides
pusillus

Tolypammina
bransoni

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tolypammina
bransoni

Tolypammina
bulbosa

Tolypammina
cyclops

Tolypammina
frizzelli

Tolypammina
gersterensis

Tolypammina
gersterensis

Tolypammina
jacobschapelensis

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tolypammina
rotula

Trepeilopsis
glomospiroides

Trepeilopsis
recurvidens

Trepeilopsis
recurvidens

Trochammina
mehli


Hannibal FM
USA, Midwestern USA
Mississippian   Carboniferous

Ammobaculites
beveridgei

Ammobaculites
pyriformis

Ammodiscella
sp.
Ammodiscus
semiconstrictus

Ammovertella
pikei

Ammovertella
sp.
Ammovertella
sp.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ammovertella
sp.
Blastammina
eisenacki

Hyperammina
casteri

Hyperammina
constricta

Hyperammina
rockfordensis

Lagenammina
cumberlandiae

Lagenammina
sp.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lagenammina
sp.
Oxinoxis
ligula

Oxinoxis
ligula

Psammosphaera
sp.
Pseudastrorhiza
conica

Rectoammodiscus
longexsertus

Reophax
northviewensis

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Reophax
sp.
Rockfordina
lachrymosa

Thuramminoides
pusillus

Tolypammina
bulbosa

Tolypammina
frizzelli

Tolypammina
jacobschapelensis

Tolypammina
sp.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trepeilopsis
glomospiroides

Trepeilopsis
recurvidens

Trepeilopsis
spiralis

Trepeilopsis
spiralis

Trochammina
mehli


Northview FM
USA, Midwestern USA
Mississippian   Carboniferous

Ammobaculites
beveridgei

Ammobaculites
beveridgei

Ammobaculites
pyriformis

Ammodiscus
sp.
Ammovertella
pikei

Hyperammina
casteri

Hyperammina
casteri

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hyperammina
casteri

Hyperammina
rockfordensis

Lagenammina
cumberlandiae

Reophax
northviewensis

Reophax
northviewensis

Rockfordina
lachrymosa

Thuramminoides
pusillus

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tolypammina
frizzelli

Tolypammina
frizzelli

Tolypammina
gersterensis

Tolypammina
gersterensis

Trepeilopsis
glomospiroides

Trepeilopsis
recurvidens

Trepeilopsis
spiralis

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trepeilopsis
spiralis

Trepeilopsis
sp.
Trochammina
mehli