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Foraminifera have significant application in the field of biostratigraphy. Due to their small size and hard shells, foraminifera may be preserved in great abundance and with high quality of preservation; due to their complex morphology, individual species are easily recognizable.
Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich (October 12, 1917 – August 18, 2004) was an American micropaleontologist who was a professor of geology at the University of California, Los Angeles, a United States Geological Survey (USGS) biostratigrapher, and a scientific illustrator whose micropaleontology specialty was research on Cretaceous foraminifera.
Hedwig Kniker along with Alva Ellisor, and Esther Applin, worked together to transform oil exploration to an economic affair. They achieved this through discovering the functionality of foraminifera in biostratigraphy. [4] In the 1920s, Kniker and her colleagues, Esther Applin and Alva Ellisor, were given macrofossil samples by their company to ...
A frequently used faunal assemblage in paleontology and paleoclimatology is the use of foraminifera assemblages as a proxy of past climate and sea levels. [15] Foraminifera are marine microorganisms that are abundant in most parts of the world's ocean and are indicators of ocean temperature, salinity, upwelling intensity, primary productivity ...
Hantkenina is a genus of foraminifera. Hantkeninids are well-known biostratigraphic index fossils. [2] They produce a test ("shell") of calcite (CaCO 3).Hantkeninids evolved from Clavigerinella caucasica. [1]
A 1973 follow-up study titled, “Late Cenozoic biostratigraphy (planktonic foraminifera) of tropical Atlantic deep-sea sections”, has also been cited numerous times. [4] Her works led her to become the editor for special publications at the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research.
The foraminifera of genus Globigerinoides are all shallow-water species with spinose forms made of hyaline calcite. [2] Most species have trochospiral chamber arrangement, though some species exhibit further complexity with streptospiral chamber arrangement.
Cavaliere dottore Carlo Fornasini (3 November 1854 – 24 December 1931) was an Italian micropalaeontologist who specialised in Foraminifera ('forams'). [a] He was a pioneer in using fossil forams to sequence marine sedimentary deposits by their relative dates; [1] [2] a technique called biostratigraphy.