is housed at the Foraminifera.eu Lab in Hamburg, Germany and in Bologna, Italy.
It contains millions of specimens, of which 7.485 are identified, photographed and catalogued. 4.248 specimens are fossils.
They represent 1.729 species (224 sp.), of which 1.142 are fossils. The collection does not contain type material but focuses on assemblages.
Part of the collection are the Cesare Brizio collection and the Plummercell slides of Karl-Otto Bock.

Planned Activities in 2025:

Video Talk THE FORAMINIFERA.EU PHYSICAL COLLECTION.
at the 5th Palaeontological virtual congress to be watched between 10.-25. March 2025 in the Session:
Unlocking the Potential of Palaeontological Collections: Challenges, Innovations, and Future Perspectives.

Continuous enlargement of the collection

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