A few foram species are parasitic, infecting sponges, molluscs, corals, or even other foraminifera. Parasitic strategies vary; some act as ectoparasites, using their pseudopodia to steal food …

Measurement of stable oxygen isotopes in planktonic and benthic foram shells from hundreds of deep-sea cores worldwide have been used to map past surface and bottom water …

Although each foram is just a single cell, they build complex shells around themselves from minerals in the seawater. These shells have accumulated in layers of sediment below the …

Jun 29, 2010 · Looking like a puffy white star studded with little pearls, this is the shell of an amoeboid protist called a foraminifera, or foram. Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010

. Foraminifera (foraminifers or, informally, just forams) are single-celled amoeboid protists. Modern taxonomies rank the group as a phylum or subphylum. The principal characteristics of …

Are there fossil forams? When the foram dies, its shell may be preserved in the sea floor sediment where it becomes part of the fossil record as sediment turns to rock. Fossil foraminifera have …

Petroleum geologists use foram fossils to identify potential oil and gas reservoirs. Scientists study modern and ancient forams to understand how ocean chemistry and climate have changed …

Oct 9, 2024 · Foram is the shortened name for a foraminiferan, a tiny protozoan, says Pat Morris, that's about 0.5 and 1 mm long. Foraminierans float in the marine plankton and their shell …

It also includes a menu of links to other sites within the collection, which include information about foram evolution, their significance, their use for correlation and highlighting pollution, and …

Foraminiferan, any unicellular organism of the rhizopodan order Foraminiferida (formerly Foraminifera), characterized by long, fine pseudopodia that extend from a uninucleated or …