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Finding the Chalk Makers: The Foraminifera - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjul98/bdforam1.html
Information and photographs of the organisms responsible for chalk deposits, how to find them, prepare and observe them under the microscope.

Foram Gallery - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar00/forwim.html
A collection of photographs of members of the Foramenifera with information about each.

Foraminifera - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/foram/foramintro.html
Introduction to the taxonomic group and information on their appearance in the fossil record where they can be used to date rocks, their life history, ecology and morphology.

Foraminifera - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foraminifera
Information from Wikipedia on these amoeboid protists with a test or shell, their diversity and life cycle and use as fossils in dating rocks.

Foraminifera - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/foram.html
Information on these single celled organisms with diagrams and images.

Geomarine Research - http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~bw.hayward/
Information about a New Zealand company engaged in the study of modern and fossil marine foraminifera. Includes abstracts of publications and discussions of research methods.

Giant of the Protozoa - http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03windows/background/education/media/03win_giants.pdf
Provides a lesson plan for a course on xenophyophores and how they interact with other species, provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Gromia, Gromia wherefore art thou Gromia? - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artoct99/gromia.html
Article by Richard Howey on the discovery of this strange organism among the algae in his aquarium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gromia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gromia
Information from Wikipedia on this genus of marine and freshwater amoeboids, closely resembling some foraminiferans, but sometimes classified under the phylum Cercozoa.

Image Gallery - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artfeb04/cbforam.html
Photographs of about twenty species of foraminifera collected from an estuary in the Netherlands.

Miniacina miniacea - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjul02/bdforamm.html
Photographic study by Brian Darnton of this curious foraminiferan from the Mediterranean Sea.

The Collection and Mounting of Foraminifera - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov98/bdforam3.html
Information on how the amateur collector can find Foraminifera on the shore and can clean and mount them for display.

What are Foraminifera? - http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/foram/whatarefor.htm
Forams as they are usually known, are abundant in all the oceans. Information on their biology, what they eat, what eats them, and their use in dating rocks and as environmental indicators.

Xenophyophore - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophyophore
Article from Wikipedia on these strange marine organisms which genetic studies suggest should be included in the phylum Foraminifera.

Xenophyophores, the Giants of the Protozoan World - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov98/xeno1.html
Article by Dave Walker on these large single celled organisms found deep in the ocean.

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