Foram Pearson. (IMAGE)

University of Southampton

Foram Pearson.

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Calcite tests of extinct species of planktonic foraminifera from the Eocene epoch (>34 million years) of Tanzania. The largest is less than a millimetre in size.

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Paul Pearson, Cardiff University.

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