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Chinese Journal of Nature ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (2): 103-107.

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Foraminifera: the small giant in the ocean

FANG Pei-yue①, WILLEMS Helmut②, MATSUOKA Atsushi③, LI Gang①   

  1. ①University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China ; ②Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen D-28359, Germany; ③Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181, Japan
  • Online:2015-04-25 Published:2015-04-23

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Abstract: The foraminifers are very small one cell organisms which primarily live in the ocean. Their normal sizes, less than one millimeter, could be observed by the help of a light microscope. Fossil foraminifers are a very important microfossil group which has played an important role in the studies of petroleum geology, biostratigraphy and paleoceanography.