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Foraminifera Le Puget-sur-Argens

April 2025: Pliocene foraminifera from Le Puget-Sur-Argens.


Gunnar Kircher, fossil collector from Wiesbaden contributed images of 127 Zanclean (Pliocene) foraminifera from Le Puget-sur-Argens in southern France. He extracted them from material of the former claypit Les Escaravatiers.
Foraminifera Le Puget-sur-Argens
Foraminifera from Sulawesi, Indonesia

November 2024: Foraminifera from Seas around Sulawesi.


Thirtyeight images of recent foraminifera from the Gulf of Tomini and the Gulf of Boni were contributed by Kresna Tri Dewi, formerly Geological Agency of Indonesia. See more ....
Foraminifera
West Florida Shelf

August 2024: Foraminifera from the West Florida Shelf


We have started to work on foraminifera from the Caribbean Sea and adjacent areas. Prof. (assoc.) Dr. Michael Martínez-Colón from Florida A&M University, School of the Environment gave us samples from the West Florida shelf to start with. Please consider to contribute images and/or samples from the Caribbean Sea. See more ....
Foraminifera
Kimmeridge Clay Formation

June 2024: Sampling in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation


In the first two weeks of June main sampling will be done with support of The Etches Collection. From our feasibility study based on single samples we have already photographed a number of species. See more ....
Foraminifera
Twistringen

May 2024: Miocene Foraminifera from Twistringen


The Miocene clay pit in Twistringen was reopened on the 5th of April 2024. We started to work on the material from this classical site. Until now 61 specimens are integrated in the database. The clay is of Langhian to Serravallian age. See more ....
Foraminifera
Greater North Sea foraminifera

January 2024: Catalog of modern Greater North Sea Foraminifera.


In the last three months we added another 400 images to our catalog, which now contains 830 illustrated specimens representing 257 species. We still lack material from the Norwegian Trench, England and the southwestern North Sea. .... to the catalog.
Foraminifera
22000 foraminifera

December 2023: 22.000 entries in the database


As of December 2023 we have passed the line of 22.000 entries in our data-base. We thank all contributors of raw material, picked specimens and images. We ourselves did a lot of photographing and fieldwork.
Each entry in the database consists of an image and accompanying data. The database is searchable on 24 criteria at the database query.
Foraminifera, Spiroloculina
Glacial erratics foraminifera

September 2023: Foraminifera in glacial erratics from NW Germany


Meet me at the Palges Conference 18.9-22.9.23 in Jena.

... to the full poster and abstract .
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Sitka, Alaska

July 2023: Sitka, Alaska, USA


The catalog of foraminifera from Alaska has been enlarged to 299 illustrated specimens. Fisherwomen Karen L. Johnson has sent us mud attached to her and her colleagues fishing gear with lots of foraminifera. We thank Karen for sharing her material with us. You may find images made by Karen and us on iNaturalist and here ....
Foraminifera, Favulina, Sitka, Alaska
Greek SChool Projects

January 2023: School projects in Greece.


We helped two schools in Greece with their projects on foraminifera: 1st High School of Kissamos and 1st Gymnasium of Koropi. Both were part of initiaves to promote the interaction between schools and scientists. The activities will continue in 2023.
Foraminifera
ALbian Foraminifera

December 2022: Albian to Turonian agglutinated foraminifera.


Richard M. Besen from the Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Paleontology contributed images of agglutinated foraminifera from the Albian to Turonian of Lower Saxonia. to Richard's images.
Foraminifera
Sternberger Gestein

May 2022: Forams from the Oligocene Sternberger Gestein.


The work on foraminifera in this glacial erratic rock, found in Northern Germany, is finished. On the record are more than seventy species. They indicate an Eochattian age (27,5-25,0 mya) and a waterdepth below 50 m. The well preserved specimens, sometimes broken with sharp edges, support the view of short local transport. To all specimens.
Foraminifera, Astacolus
Sitka, Alaska

March 2022: Sitka, Alaska, USA


Karen L. Johnson contacted us with the idea to build an illustrated catalog of foraminifera from Alaska. She lives in Sitka and found sediments attached to her fishing gear with lots of foraminifera in them. We started now this new project and thank Karen for sharing her material with us. You may find images made by Karen and us on iNaturalist and here ....
Foraminifera, Bolivina, Sitka, Alaska
Newsletter 2022

February 2022: The NEWSLETTER 2022 is out


The Foraminifera.eu Newsletter is sent once a year to its 850+ subscribers. It tells about activities, new features and contributions of the past and plans for the future. It is meant as a "Thank You" to our contributors. It is a 2MB sized PDF and sent via email. Click on the button to the right to subsribe and to get the newest version. Older versions are available thru Research Gate.
Foraminifera, Forams from the Sahul Shelf

January 2022: Sahul Shelf and Timor Sea Foraminifera


By courtesy of the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research we fully added illustrations from Loeblich, A. R., Tappan, H. N., 1994: Foraminifera of the Sahul Shelf and Timor Sea. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication 31. 661 pp. All about 2200 specimens are integrated. ... see more
Foraminifera, Forams Quinqueloculina
Workshop

19. September 2021: Fieldwork in the Upper Cretaceous Lägerdorf Quarry.


Samples at different depths from the surface will be taken in order to identify stratigrafical layers based on foraminifera. To date the quarry with its depth of 100 m is seen as a thick, undifferentiated package of Upper Campanian material. We want to investigate whether a differentiation of the strata is possible. ... see more.
Foraminifera, Stensioeina
17000 foraminifera

May 2021: 17.000 entries in the database


As of May we have passed the line of 17.000 entries in our data- base. We thank all contributors of raw material, picked specimens and images. We ourselves did a lot of photographing and fieldwork in Paleocene and Jurassic strata.
Each entry in the database consists of an image and accompanying data. The database is searchable on 24 criteria at the database query.
Foraminifera, Ehrenbergina
Paleocene Forams

April 2021: Paleocene Foraminifera from Glacial Erratics.


Together with Stefan I found solid rock boulders at the Baltic coast: Kerteminde Marl. Freezing cracked them and dozens of foraminifera peeled out. ... see more
Foraminifera, Forams Kerteminde
Jurassic Forams

March 2021: Jurassic Foraminifera from Glacial Erratics.


A new set of specimens from Jurassic glacial erratics found in gravel pits north of Berlin are provided by Steffen Schneider. We enlarge the photographing and identification. ... see more
Foraminifera, Forams Epistomina
Foraminifera, Forams from the Sahul Shelf

January 2021: Sahul Shelf and Timor Sea Foraminifera


By courtesy of the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research we are adding illustrations from Loeblich, A. R., Tappan, H. N., 1994: Foraminifera of the Sahul Shelf and Timor Sea. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication 31. 661 pp. So far 630 of about 2300 specimens are integrated. ... see more
Foraminifera, Forams Quinqueloculina
Foraminifera, Forams from the Mauritanian Slope

November 2020: Foraminifera from the Mauritanian Slope


The work on foraminifera from the Mauritanian Slope is an ongoing process with new SEM images added in November. The images are made by N. Mahnken, Senckenberg am Meer. The specimens are picked from material provided by Senckenberg am Meer and was sampled during cruise 16/3 of RV Maria S. Merian. ... see more
Foraminifera, Forams Ammolagena
Foraminifera, Forams from the Reykjanes Ridge

October 2020: Foraminifera from the Reykjanes Ridge


The work on foraminifera from the Reykjanes Ridge south of Iceland has been enlarged. Dieter Ketelsen and Cai-Uso Wohler - both from the Foraminifera.eu team - picked forams and made about 450 images of 169 specimens. The raw material is provided by Senckenberg am Meer and was sampled during cruise 75 of RV Maria S. Merian. ... see more
Foraminifera, Pyrgo
July 2020: Campanian Foraminifera from Lägerdorf, Germany
A new effort is undertaken to photograph and dentify benthic specimens from the chalk-quarry at Lägerdorf. The material is of Upper Campanian age. Team Member Dieter Ketelsen made images and step by step we are discussing the identification. It is planned to sample in the quarry again as Lower Campanian to Santonian layers are possibly mined. ... see more
June 2020: Miocene Foraminifera from Unterrudling, Austria
In 2019 Dr. Björn Berning took Michael Hesemann on a fieldtrip to the Oligocene/Miocene pit of Unterrudling in Upper Austria near Linz. Some of the samples were processed by team member Dieter Ketelsen. He photogrpahed 46 specimens. ... see more
May 2020: Foraminifera from off Aqaba, Jordan.
A set of sixty two images of recent foraminifera from the Gulf of Aqaba, Northern Red Sea are provided by Andrea Perl. She made the images with a scanning electron microscope for her diploma thesis at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel. ... see more
June 2020: "FORAMINIFERA a catalogue of typical forms"
by Wilfried Rönnfeld
is now available from Micropress Europe. It contains excellent illustrations of the morphological features of foraminifera accompanied by explanations of the specific terms. Furthermore it gives an overview on the most important genera and their stratigraphy. It is the 4th edition. ... see more
May 2020: Miocene Foraminifera from Gram, Denmark
Dieter Ketelsen and Cai-Uso Wohler extracted specimens from the Gram clay matrix and shot fifty four images. On a fieldtrip in 2019 we visited the Gram Lergrav in Southern Denmark and took samples. ... see more
April 2020: Jurassic Foraminifera from Glacial Erratics.
A set of specimens from Callovian glacial erratics found in gravel pits north of Berlin are provided by Steffen Schneider. We photographed and identified 34 specimens so far. ... see more
March 2020: Our microfossil club in Hamburg meets virtually
The AG Mikropaläontologie im Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein Hamburg continues their meetings now via videoconferencing. The sessions are in German only. ... contact us in German if you want to participate
March 2020: Sandcollector Loes Modderman
from the Netherlands contributes a set of 34 images. It is common, that sandcollectors find forams in their beach sands. Waves role the shells over and over until they are gone. Beach sands may contain a mix of well preserved shells to heavily corroded pebble like objects. Loes has nicely illustrated this specific mix of forams, which sandcollectors frequently see and enjoy. If you haven't noticed the foraminifera yet, take a closer look into your beach sands. ... see more
March 2020: Michael Dietrich contributes images
of foraminifera from sand of the creek Szejdlik near Stare, district Trebivlice in the Czech Republic. The sand is found by sandcollector P. Vodila. We think that the foraminifera indicate an Upper Cretaceous age. Amongst the genera are Neoflabellina, Ammobaculites, Lenticulina and Frondicularia
... see more
February 2020: 15.000 Entries
The milestone of 15.000 entries in our database has been passed. Each entry consists of 1-3 images and 24 accessible data. It means that 15.000 x 24 = 360.000 data are accessible in our database. It allows us to offer you a wide range of searchable data through our interfaces. You find them on the top row: Genus, Locality, Fossil and the main Query
February 2020: Brandenburg - Cretaceous
Prof. Dr. Olaf Elicki, TU Freiberg contributes 239 SEM images of foraminifera from his publication on Cretaceous foraminifera from Brandenburg, Germany. The images nicely enlarge our Catalogue of Upper Cretaceous Foraminifera. The forams were found in material from three drills and range from Albian to Coniacian age. ... to the images
Janurary 2020: Stade - Miocene
A set of 70 images of Miocene foraminifera from a drill near Stade (Hamburg-area) are added. Stefan Raveling - Foraminifera.eu team - got the drill-core, processed it and picked hundreds of specimens. Cai-Uso Wohler - Foraminifera.eu team - shot about optical 200 images. The specimens are shown with different views. ... see more
NEWSLETTER
The Foraminifera.eu Newsletter is sent once a year in January to its 700+ subscribers. It tells about activities, new features and contributions of the past and plans for the future. It is meant as a "Thank You" to our contributors. It is a 2MB sized PDF and sent via email. Click on the button to the right to subsribe and to get the newest version. Older versions are available thru Research Gate