The Foraminifera.eu physical collection
is housed at the Foraminifera.eu Lab in Hamburg, Germany and in Bologna, Italy.
It contains millions of specimens, of which 6.312 are identified, photographed and catalogued. 3.056 specimens are fossils.
They represent 1.615 species (202 sp.), of which 1.019 are fossils.
Part of the collection are the Cesare Brizio collection and the Plummercell slides of Karl-Otto Bock.

The Foraminifera.eu Collection


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Planned Activities in 2025:

Continuous enlargement of the collection

Publishing a paper about the collection in the Revue de micropaléontologie
Special Edition 'Micropaleontology collections: from history to curation'.