The Foraminifera, are a class of amoeboid protists. They have thin pseudopodia that form an external net for catching food. They also usually have an external shell, or test, made of various materials and constructed in diverse forms.
Foraminifera or forams, are a large group of amoeboid protists with reticulating pseudopods, fine strands of cytoplasm that branch and merge to form a dynamic net.
The taxonomy is: kingdom protista phylum foraminifera class granuloreticulosea order forminiferida family globigerinidae.
Foraminifera eat things like detritus, diatoms, bacteria, algae, and even small animals such as copepods.
It is in a Phylum of its own.
Mississippian Period
Foraminifera are found everywhere in marine environments. The forams found near oil deposits are different because they have parasites attached. Oil companies look for an environment that has more than 2% frequency of parasitized forams as a sign there may be an oil deposit. Their test, shell, also forms differently in environments with more oil which is another sign.
What they are made of. Calcareous ooze is made from calium carbnate shells of cooclithophores, foraminifera, and other things with carbonate shells. Siliceous ooze is made of silica shells of radiolaria (really cool looking), diatoms, and anything else with a silica shell.
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sea snails eat seaweed.They also eat anything plant realated.
M. K. BouDagher-Fadel has written: 'The early evolutionary history of planktonic foraminifera' -- subject(s): Foraminifera, Fossil, Fossil Foraminifera 'Evolution and geological significance of larger benthic foraminifera'
Harvey W. Anderson has written: 'Some Cretaceous Foraminifera of South Dakota' -- subject(s): Foraminifera, Fossil, Fossil Foraminifera
Helen Jeanne Plummer has written: 'Foraminifera of the Midway formation in Texas' -- subject(s): Foraminifera, Fossil, Fossil Foraminifera, Paleontology
Robert Wakeman Jones has written: 'Lower tertiary foraminifera from Waldport, Oregon' -- subject(s): Foraminifera, Fossil, Fossil Foraminifera
Brooks Fleming Ellis has written: 'Catalogue of planktonic Foraminifera' -- subject(s): Catalogs and collections, Foraminifera, Fossil Foraminifera, Fossils, Zooplankton 'Catalogue of Foraminifera' -- subject(s): Bibliography, Foraminifera 'Catalogue of Ostracoda' -- subject(s): Classification, Crustacea, Fossil Crustacea, Fossil Ostracoda, Ostracoda
D. H. McNeil has written: 'Cretaceous rocks and their foraminifera in the Manitoba escarpment' -- subject(s): Foraminifera, Fossil, Fossil Foraminifera, Paleontology
The chemical differences between Radiolarian and Foraminifera are in the types of shell casts they have developed. Radiolarians have siliceous shells, whereas Foraminifera have calcareous shells.
Lina Mercedes Balseiro has written: 'Upper cretaceous foraminifera of southern Colombia, S.A' -- subject(s): Foraminifera, Fossil, Fossil Foraminifera, Geology
Warren Norton has written: 'James River foraminifera' -- subject(s): Foraminifera
Alan Hilder Smout has written: 'Lower tertiary Foraminifera of the Qatar Peninsula' -- subject(s): Arabia, Foraminifera, Fossil, Fossil Foraminifera, Paleontology, Qatar
Nikolaos Solakius has written: 'Foraminifera and biostratigraphy of the Arnager Limestone, Bornholm, Denmark' -- subject(s): Animals, Fossil, Foraminifera, Fossil, Fossil Animals, Fossil Foraminifera
Cornelis Willem Drooger has written: 'Radial foraminifera' -- subject(s): Foraminifera