Foraminiferal tests are the tests (or shells) of Foraminifera. Foraminifera (forams for short) are single-celled predatory protists, mostly marine, and...

through molecular analysis of small subunit ribosomal DNA. Foraminifera typically produce a test, or shell, which can have either one or multiple chambers...

The test of foraminifera, a group of single-celled organisms, is extremely evolutionarily diverse. Many different methods of constructing the test are...

the deposit (diagenesis, silica (SiO2) dissolution/precipitation, diatoms tests ageing). The species of diatom may also differ among deposits. The species...

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sulfides greigite and pyrite.[citation needed] Some organisms, such as some foraminifera, agglutinate exoskeletons by sticking grains of sand and shell to their...

the case of sea squirts, supported by a cellulose exoskeleton known as a test), chordate bodies are developed along an axial endoskeleton derived from...

teeth with calcified pulp will typically respond negatively to vitality testing; teeth with calcified pulp often lack sensation of pain, pressure, and...

silicate shells. Foraminifera and coccolithophores create shells known as "tests" which are made of calcium carbonate. These shells and tests are usually microscopic...

Martindale, R. C.; Simpson, C.; Fraass, A. J. (2025). "Record of Foraminifera test composition throughout the Phanerozoic". Proceedings of the Royal...

deformation mechanism as well as its toughness. Tensile, shear, and compression tests, Weibull analysis, nanoindentation, and other techniques have all been used...

Broecker, Wallace; Clark, Elizabeth (2009). "Ratio of coccolith CaCO3to foraminifera CaCO3in late Holocene deep sea sediments". Paleoceanography. 24 (3)....

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Working Group reported finding nickel and iron splash droplets fused to foraminifera tests in slides taken from deep-ocean core samples near Burckle Crater,...

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grouping of foraminiferans, traditionally consisting of all foraminifera with single-chambered tests. Recent work has shown that the grouping is paraphyletic...

despite some of them having tests, are not counted amongst testate amoebae; this comprises genus Gromia and the Foraminifera (both in Rhizaria). The Thecamoebida...

As another example, many fossil genera of Foraminifera, which are protists are known from shells (called tests) that were as big as coins, such as the genus...

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the life cycle of some marine organisms, including corals, mollusks, foraminifera, certain types of plankton, and other calcifying marine invertebrates...

in diatoms – even though diatoms use silica, not calcite, to form their tests! The shell-secreting area is differentiated very early in embryonic development...

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Choanoflagellate lorica Protist shell coccosphere coccolith diatom frustule foraminifera test testate amoebae Seashell echinoderm stereom mollusc shell nacre chiton...

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Choanoflagellate lorica Protist shell coccosphere coccolith diatom frustule foraminifera test testate amoebae Seashell echinoderm stereom mollusc shell nacre chiton...

sediments to the oceans was relatively lower. Foram dissolution: foraminifera tests appear to be more eroded during H3 and H6 (Gwiazda et al., 1996)....

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the burrow. As a result of this, scientists found large numbers of foraminifera tests within the burrows. These were trapped in certain areas suggesting...

The Fusulinida is an extinct order within the Foraminifera in which the tests are traditionally considered to have been composed of microgranular calcite...