Foraminifera

Bailey's Beam, identified as Foraminifera 9-Hart, who had refused treatment for systemic weltschmerz and instead sought to relieve his boredom by adventuring into this era.

The Day of the Boomer Dukes Frederik Pohl 1957

They are the shells of animals called Foraminifera, because the shells of some of them are full of holes, through which they put out tiny arms.

Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847

'Foraminifera', which Ehrenberg has recently described, seem to indicate the existence at that remote period of forms singularly like those which now exist.

Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

My "name" is Foraminifera 9-Hart Bailey's Beam, and I am of adequate age and size.

More Free Fiction, with Excerpts 2007

The ‘Globigerina’ of the Atlantic soundings is identical with that which occurs in the chalk; and the casts of lower silurian ‘Foraminifera’, which Ehrenberg has recently described, seem to indicate the existence at that remote period of forms singularly like those which now exist.

Essays 2007

Ehrenberg are exceedingly like those which now exist: no one has ever pretended that the difference between any ancient and any modern Foraminifera is of more than generic value, nor are the oldest Foraminifera either simpler, more embryonic, or less differentiated, than the existing forms.

Essays 2007

In the 1950s, the Foraminifera, along with other microscopic organisms "protozoa", were considered to be animals.

A shell of a different kind AYDIN 2006

Foraminifera, called forams by those who study them, are mostly microscopic and exclusively marine organisms in the kingdom Protista.

A shell of a different kind AYDIN 2006

I had a quick google or two after looking at the cited article on Planktonic Foraminifera off California and discovered some rather interesting facts.

Rutherford, Mann et al [2005] « Climate Audit 2006

Paradoxically, much of the "basic science" of what we know today of fossil Foraminifera was written by paleontologists in the employ of major oil corporations - not in residing in purely academic or museum settings.

A shell of a different kind AYDIN 2006