Abstract
The Buliminida include some of the most beautiful glassy Foraminifera—elongate spirals or columns of bubble-like chambers with comma-shaped or delicately siphonate apertures and compressed blades with barbed carinae. They are densely perforated and the pores, often of different sizes and shapes, may be arranged in different patterns. The external surface is often variously ornamented with costae, nodes or spines which appear to afford a peculiar adaptive advantage in the fine sediments of the deep ocean floor.
A study of foraminiferal assemblages of modern seas has disclosed striking correlations between form, structure and environment …. Among species of Bolivina, Bulimina and Uvigerina, small, less ornamented types occur on the continental shelf and there is a progressive increase and differentiation of surface sculpture with increasing depth of water.
(Bandy, 1960)
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Haynes, J.R. (1981). The Buliminida. In: Foraminifera. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05397-1_10
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