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Foraminifera
Foraminifera
WHAT ARE
FORAMINIFERA?
CHARACTERISTICS OF
FORAM
Unicellular organisms;
Produce tests (approximately 0.1 to 1 mm in size);
sometime to a few cm. Tests have pores;
Motion by reticulate pseudopodia;
Planktic & Benthic;
Most of them lives in marine environment
WHY FORAMINIFERA?
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Small
Abundant & geographically distributed
Test shape and size differs through time
Exist for more than 500 million years
Short reproductive cycles
Trace element chemistry preserved in test
(http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/students/forams/forams_what_is.htm)
LIVING FORAMINIFERA
LIVING FORAMINIFERA
Kematian foraminifera
diantaranya adalah:
dapat
disebabkan
beberapa
1. Reproduksi
2. Dimangsa
3. Terkubur dalam sedimen akibat adanya gelombang & arus
4. Penyakit
faktor
FORAMINEFERA LIFE
CYCLE
DIMORPHISME
CLASSIFICATION
Phylum PROTOZOA
Kelas SARCODINA
Subkelas RHIZOPODA
Ordo FORAMINIFERA
Subordo ALLOGROMIINA (2 fam)
Subordo TEXTULARIINA (12 fam)
Subordo MILIOLIINA (6 fam)
Subordo ROTALIINA (43 fam)
ECOLOGY OF
FORAMINIFERA
Salinity
Substrate
Temperature
Depth
Nutrition
pH
Organic content
Trace element
Turbidity
Oxygen
Ilumination
Calsium Carbonate
Current & Wave
EVOLUSI FORAMINIFERA
EVOLUSI FORAMINIFERA
(lanjutan)
EVOLUSI FORAMINIFERA
(lanjutan)
Saat ini
Lebih dari 10.000 spesies foram, mayoritas adalah bentonik,
hanya sekitar 40-50 spesies adalah plangtonik.
(Sumber: http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/students/forams/...)
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