Editors Note:

Thanks to your contributions and comments,

the Foraminifera.eu-Project has seen further

progress in 2013. Numbers have again in-

creased from 2012 for example the number of

integrated images from 6000 to 7600, visits

from 61.000 to 96.000 and page views from

313.000 to 584.000 p.a..

Quantity is needed to bring our data-base con-

cept to bloom. However, in 2013, we put our

emphasis on quality meaning reliability of

identifications, coverage in species, space and

time and relevance of illustrations. In March

we got permission from the Smithsonian Insti-

tution National Museum of Natural History to

use all of their images. Just 111 of ~ 1500 type

specimen images are integrated so far. In June

Michael A. Kaminski granted the right to use

all images of the IWAF proceedings published

by the Grzybowski Foundation. Just 183 of

~5000 images are integrated so far. We met at

the 6th ISF and later at the foram+nano group

meeting of The Micropalaeontological Society. Many „smaller“ contributions of high quality

were made by junior scientists, malacologists,

sand collectors and amateurs, like the image to

the left made by Bernard Remaud.

The Austrian Geological Survey (Holger Ge-

bardt) gave permission to us all their publica-

tions and those of preceding organizations.

About 800 illustrations of thousands were inte-

grated. In December we started to add images

from Marcelle K. Boudagher-Fadel publica-

tions. The only integration completed is that of

~800 drawings and SEMs from Peter Frenzels book „The benthic Foraminifera of

the Rügen Chalk“ published in 2000. In 2013 we aligned our classification with

that of the World Foraminifera Database and link from our species-pages to theirs.

In 2014 we want to pass the line of 9.000 images and

will use the permissions given. Though we do not want

to become data-clerks only and are looking forward to

the work in projects and samples coming in. There will

be 10+ talks starting with our presentation at Fo-

rams2014 in Chile. Our exhibition will be shown in

Freiberg, Saxony.

Thank you all ! Michael Hesemann

Content:

1 Editors Note

2 Contributions by senior scientists

and institutions GBA, Grzybowski Foundation, SINMNH, Peter Frenzel, Michael A. Kaminski, Marcelle K. Boudagher-Fadel

3 Contributions by junior scientists

4 Contributions by Amateurs

5 Outreach 2013/2014

Exhibition, Display and Talks.

6 Projects / Working Groups 2014 Atlas of Maastrichtian forams, an Aptian

profile from Porutgal, key to species, spe

cies pages, North Sea

7 Outlook 2014

8 List of Contributors scientists and amateurs

The Fossil Foraminifera of the Tertiary Basin of Vienna / Papp and Schmidts 1985 revision

The Geological Survey of Austria gave us the permis-sion to us all of their publi-cations. We completed the integration of images from Papp and Schmidts 1985 revision of the monograph by Alcide d'Orbigny (1846) It comprises ~800 illustra-

tions including those of 80 type specimens, like the one shown to the left: Lenticulina ariminensis d'Orbigny, 1846. We thank Holger Gebhardt (GSA) for providing high resolution images of several publications. We will add more in 2014.

Contributions by senior scientists and institutions Project: Atlas of Boreal

Maastrichtian Foraminifera In 2012 a project team

(Dieter, Karl-Otto, Mi-

chael and Stefan) started

to work on Maastrichtian

material from Northern

Germany with a result of

190 SEM and optical im-

ages. After 6 months Dr.

Peter Frenzel, University

of Jena joined in and

made the proposal to

build an Atlas of Boreal Maastrichtian Foraminifera.

ranging from the UK to Russia. He gave permission

to use the illustrations from his book: Frenzel, Peter,

2000: Die benthischen Foraminiferen der Rügener

Schreibkreide (Unter-Maastrichtium, NE-

Deutschland).

The Atlas comprises so far 800 illustrated entries

of ~280 mainly benthic species. Courtesy of

Marcelle K. Boudagher-Fadel we are able in 2014

to add many images of planktic foraminifera. Due

to the limited capacities we probably will not be

able to work on samples of Masstrichtian profiles

from Moen and Norwich provided by Peter Fren-

zel. Everyone holding images of Maastrichtian

forams is welcome to join in.

Remarks and Perspectives We view the permissions given in 2013 by promi-nent scientists and institutions as a substantial acknowledgement of our work and as a motiva-tion to move on. Foraminifera.eu is viewed as an

opportunity to promote publications as we just show images with basic data. Whoever wants to learn more needs to get the original publication, to which we refer on each single page (see example to the left)

As our work is based on naturalist enthusiasm and only voluntary efforts are involved it will take time to integrate the thousands of images. Nobody wants to be a data-clerk only. In 2014 we plan to integrate 1000 illustrations from major works plus 700 from own works, junior scientists and amateurs.

Proceedings of the Eight International Work-shop on Agglutinated Foraminifera

Michael A. Kaminski gave us permission to use the images from all of the IWAF proceedings published by the Grzybowski Foundation. I started to integrate images from an article by Eii-chi Setoyama. Thanks Mike+Eiichi ! Setoyama, E., Kaminski, M.A., Tyszka, J., 2011: Late Cre-taceous Agglutinated Foraminifera and Implications for the Biostratigraphy and Palaeobiogeography of the southwestern Barents Sea: Paratrochamminoides heteromorphus (Grzybowski, 1898)

The Cushman Collections

Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History and Brian T. Huber we are allowed to integrate images of foraminif-

era from the Cushman Col-lections. We integrated so far only 111 as we have to gather data from the origi-nal publications to fill the database properly. Ines Wendler from the Univer-sity of Bremen contributed

images from her 2011 publication on specimens housed in the SINMNH Wendler et al.,2011: Early evolutionary history of Tubulogenerina and Colomia, with new species from the Turonian of East Africa

Colomia africana Wendler 2011

Marcelle K. Boudagher-Fadel gave permission in December to integrate images from her pub-lications. To enlarge our coverage we started to add ~ 170 illustrations of plank-tonic foraminifera from her book Boudagher-Fadel, M. K.,2013: Biostratigraphic and Geologi-cal Significance of Planktonic Foraminifera. (2nd ed.)

Blefusciana ...

Contributions by junior scientists

Samia Khabouchi Marzouki , Tunisia

Samia Khabouchi Marzouki from the Laboratory

of Reproductive Biology

and Development and sca-

lable biosystematics of the

Campus University Tunis

sent samples from the

beaches at Oued Milia-

ne with an intersting mix

of recent and well preser-

ved Cretaceous forams.

recent Ammonia sp. and the Upper Creteceous

Globotruncana linneiana (d'Orbigny, 1839)

Hal Ray Tichenor, USA has provided another set of images of foraminifera from the US. This time Hal Ray contributed excel-

lent SEMs of recent foraminifera from off the Mississippi Delta, Northern Gulf of Mexico

from 87m of water

depth:

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Bulimina

marginata

d'Orbigny, 1826

Globobulimina

mississippiensis

Parker, 1954

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Jan Steger, Austria a MSc student of marine biology provides us

continuously with valuable samples. In 2013

Jan sent us kgs of fossil rich Upper Cretace-

ous material from Salzburg/Upper Austria.

We disintegrated the rocks, picked many fo-

rams and will do the imaging later in 2014.

Micael Luã Bergamaschi,

Brazil Micael Luã Bergamaschi, with

whom I attended the 6th Inter-

national School on Foraminifera

in Urbino provided images from

his thesis on Pleistocene forams

from the Santos Basin.

< === Bolivina inflata Heron-Allen

and Earland, 1913

A first contribution from India

by Selvin Shyam Paul Selvin Shyan Paul contributed images taken by

Prof. Addula Nallappa Reddy of recent forami-

nifera from the South West Indian Ocean. They

are from five grab samples collected in June

2009 by ORV Sagar Kanya from 3150-4125m

depth and details are published in Nadimikeri Jayara-

ju et al., 2010: Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminiferal Distribution in

South West Indian Ocean: Implications to Paleoecology in Inter-

national Journal of Geosciences, 2010, 1, 79-86 Borelis ...

Hamed Hooshmand Koochi, Italy together with Manuchehr

Shahmoradi, Maryam Ey-

dani and Shideh Shidniya

provided images of Holo-

cene foraminifera from

Chabahar Bay, Iran <=== Cycloforina

Some of the contributions

by amateur foraminiferologists

Bernard Remaud

Sable du Monde Bernard is a well known sand collector and creator of “Sable du Monde”. In 2013 Bernard started to contribute his excellent op-tical images and samples from all over the world. The image to the left shows an assemblage found at 65m water depth near Ile de Porquerolles, French Mediterranean Sea.

Roland Verreet, Germany

Roland Verreet is a dedicated

photomicrographist, interested

in foraminifera. Roland contri-

buted several optical images of

high quality showing tiny de-

tails.

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Elphidium

fichtelianum

(d'Orbigny,

1846)

Helmut Krock, Germany Helmut Krock, a German malacologist, gave us

several samples from Hungary of Badenian age -

a regional stage of the Miocene. We made several

images but will continue to work on his excellent

material in 2014. Planostegina granulatatesta Papp & Küpper, 1954

Georg Wawczyniak, Hamburg Georg contantly shoots images of plummercells

for us. In 2013 we only managed to bring online

72 fields of two plummercells produced by Dr.

Karla Kreisel. They contain forams from the

mid Atlantic Reykjanes Ridge. In 2014 we in-

tend to bring more plumercells of Karl-Otto

Bock online, which Georg has already pho-

tographed field by field.

A big thank you to

everyone who contributed

Outreach 2013/2014

Exhibition “Foraminifera

- witnesses of Earth history” Our foraminiferal exhibition with about 20 post-

ers, 30cm big sculptures by artist Anna Mandel,

tools of the micro paleontologist, microscopes

with mounted sam-

ples, rocks, sedi-

ments and other ob-

jects was shown in

December at the

mineral fair in Ham-

burg. It will be

shown as a part of a

bigger exhibition in

Freiberg, Saxony.

Until autumn a tem-

porary exhibit was

shown in the Calvert Cliffs Marine Museum,

USA.

www.foraminifera.eu/exhibition.html

Talks in fossil clubs Eight talks on foraminifera were held in Northern

Germany at amateur clubs, conferences and the

Hamburg mineral fair. Most were held in German

but are offered also in English. The talks area ac-

companied by microscopes, specimens and

washed material so that participants get a vivid

impression. They may take home material, con-

sult the webpage and contact us later via email.

So far 8 talks are scheduled and more are planned

for 2014. Please find more information at www.foraminifera.eu/talks.html

First slide on the subject

Foraminifera - the fascinating hobby

one of the posters

Talks at scientific meetings in 2013 a short presentation of the foraminif-

era.eu project was made at the 6th International

School on foraminifera. It was followed the same

week by a talk on our concept at the spring meet-

ing 2013 of The Micropalaeontological Society

Foraminifera and Nannofossil Groups in Prague.

Dr. Holger Gebhardt of the Geological Survey of

Austria will present our database concept at the

Forams2014 meeting with a talk and poster. It

will be in the “Workshop: Electronic Foraminife-

ral Atlases and Databases“ on 23. January 17.00-

19.30h. As yet there are no further plans for 2014.

Activities in and around Hamburg The AG Mikropaläontologie im Naturwissen-

schaftlichen Verein

Hamburg, of which

some of us are mem-

bers is planning a rich

year 2014 with excur-

sions, exercises and

discussing photo– and

technical issues. A

major subject will be

foraminifera of th e North Sea. We meet every

3rd Monday, 12 times a year. Find more details

at www.mikrohamburg.de/ProgrammPalaeo.html

Workshops Workshops are still in the phase of planning. In

2011 we organized together with AG Mikro-

paläontologie a successful weekend-workshop.

Now it is intended to share the burden of its or-

ganization. A preliminary meeting will take

place with the Geopark Norddeutsches Stein-

reich in February.

Our Memberships

AG Mikropaläontologie im

Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein Hamburg

Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research

Gesellschaft für Geschiebekunde

The Grzybowski Foundation

The Micropalaeontological Society

Paläontologische Gesellschaft

Running Projects

In the project “Sternberger Gestein” we are portraying the

foraminera in the local glacial erratic rocks from Northern Ger-

many. They are famous for their rich content of mollusks of

Chattian Age. In 2013 we added just a few plates of Agglutinates

and Frondicularia to foraminifera.eu/sternberg/ . To show the in-

ternal chamber arrangement we sliced single specimens.

Projects and Working Groups 2014

In the project „Aptian Foraminifera of the Algarve“ Brian Ottway - a retired British marine biologist - and I

processed in 2013 over 50 samples of a profile near Luz.

Our count and interpretation of foraminifera, ostracods and

charophytes led to the conclusion that the section repre-

sents a fluctuation of shallow marine, brackish to freshwa-

ter environments. At the mo-

ment we are taking a break to

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As described on page two the project

„Atlas of Maastrichtian Foraminifera“

is flourishing. In 2014 it is planned to

add planktonic foraminifera.

Remarks Projects and working groups are established

whenever someone comes forward with an interesting pro-

ject-idea, material or need for help, regardless of being a

senior scientist or just an amateur. Please don‘t be shy to

contact us. We will tell you whether we match :) Before

Christmas a young scientist from Northern California con-

tacted us to portray local foraminifera. To get an adequate

result and check the dedication of our

partner :) we asked her to pick and

send us 300 specimens from a single

sample. It seemed to work, we are ex-

pecting an airmail-envelope from Cali-

fornia and will do the SEM-imaging

and identification in February/March.

In the „Key to species“ project we have developed

a new interface for a clas-

sification key. So far it is

designed for benthic fora-

minifera and limited to the

species in the Maastrichti-

an Atlas. It will be tested

by professionals and ama-

teurs alike. At the moment

we are working on a key

to planktonic species.

Comments are welcome.

In the „Forams of the North Sea“ pro-

ject we want to collect and get samples

from all of the North Sea. The intention

is to learn more about it‘s biozones and

whether they are reflected in the forami-

niferal record. Excursions are planned

and we are right now reading and dis-

cussing about sampling procedures.

Outlook 2014

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List of Contributors Scientists/Scientific Institutions:

Lúcia de Abreu, Portugal and UK

Wafa'a Mugahed Ahmed Al-Qadassi, University of Sana'a, Yemen

Mohammed Al-Wosabi, Earth & Environmental Sci. Dept. Faculty of Science.

Sana'a' University, Yemen, Sana'a

Geise de Santana dos Anjos Zerfass, Petrobras, Brazil

Víctor Aramayo, Jorge Cardich, Dimitri Gutiérrez, Instituto del Mar del Perú, Callao, Lima, Perú

Abdulrahman A. Bamerni, Assistant Lecturer - University of Duhok Faculty of Engineering and Applied

Sciences Head's assistant of the Department of GeoSciences School of Applied Earth Science and

Geoinformatics Duhok - Kurdistan Region Iraq

Micael Luã Bergamaschi, Biologist at Research Center of Petrobras

(Fundação Gorceix - CENPES/PDGEO/BPA), Brazil

David C. Bossard, 19thcenturyscience.org, USA. David scanned the drawings from the "Report on the

Foraminifera dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-1876 by Henry B.rady"

Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel, Principal Research Fellow, Office of the Vice-Provost (Research),

Universiy College London

Miroslav Bubik, Czech Geological Survey, Czech Republic

Tomas Cedhagen, Aarhus University, Department of Biological Sciences (providing a revision of Bradys

Challenger drawings based upon Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera)

David P. Cilia, biologist teacher and amateur malacologist, Malta

James E. Conkin and Barbara M. Conkin, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Stephen J. Culver, Department of Geological Sciences, East Carolina University, NC, USA

Eiszeitmuseum Lütjenburg, Germany, Lütjenburg, Foram-Exhibition and samples, Gisela Lentz

Peter Frenzel, Universiy of Jena, Institute of Geosciences, Germany

Virginia Friedman, M.S. Paleontology UTDallas (2004)

Fabrizio Frontalini/Rodolfo Coccioni, DiSUAN, Laboratorio di Micropaleontologia Ambientale Facoltà di

Scienze e Tecnologie, Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo"

Sascha Fürstenberg, Universiy of Jena, Institute of Geosciences, Germany

Stephen J. Gallagher, School of Earth Sciences, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Geologisches Landesamt Hamburg, Germany

Geological Survey of Austria, Vienna, Austria

Stephen J. Godfrey, Calvert Marine Museum, MD, USA

Bruno Granier, Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l'Univers,

Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France

Hans-Joachim Gregor, Palaeo Bavarian GS, Co-Editor of Documenta naturae, Germany, Bavaria

Onno Groß ex WoRMS, Hamburg DEEPWAVE - NGO for the protection of the oceans

Bruce Hayward, Geomarine Research, Auckland, New Zealand and mayor WORMS-Editor on Forams,

helping with classification and providing monographs.

Hamed Hooshmand Koochi, PhD student of carbonate sedimentology, Department of Environmental

Sciences, University of Naples, Italy together with Manuchehr Shahmoradi, Maryam Eydani and Shideh

Shidniya

Angelika Hesse, Museum für Naturkunde und Vorgeschichte, Dessau provided several samples from the

German Eocene/Oligocene, which are not yet processed

Johannes Kalbe, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Universität Potsdam

Michael A. Kaminski, Earth Sciences Department King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

(KFUPM) Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and Grzybowski Foundation

Samia Khabouchi Marzouki, Laboratory of Reproductive Biology and Development and scalable biosyste-

matics. Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of Tunis, Campus University Tunis El

Manar II, 2092 Tunis

Olga Koukousioura, Dept. of Historical Geology-Paleontology, Faculty of Geology & Geo-environment,

University of Athens

Karla Kreisel, retired from Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald

Hans-Jürgen Lierl, retired preparator former "Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Universität Hamburg"

samples not yet processed

Uwe Marheinecke, geological consultant, ISO-certification, Germany, Hamburg (first instructor on micro-

fossils)

Valeria I. Mikhalevich, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

Mikroskopische Gesellschaft Wien, Sample exchange

Renata Moura, Petrobras, Brazil

Arnold Mueller, Geologisch - Palaeontologische Sammlung, University of Leipzig

Siegfried Mueller, Dipl. Geologe

Jenö Nagy, Institutt for geofag, Oslo, Norway

John Nance, Paleontology Collections Manager, Calvert Marine Museum, Maryland, USA

Kai Nungesser, Hobby-Naturalist and author, Germany

Ekaterina Ovsepyan, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, Moscow, Russia

Yaroslav Ovsepyan, Geological Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Selvin Shyam Paul, India

Martina Pippèrr, Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften, Paläontologie und Geobiologie,

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Irina Polovodova, University of Gothenburg Department of Earth Sciences (ex IFM Geomar)

Wilfried Rönnfeld, Institut für Geowissenschaften der Universität Tübingen

Eric M Sadorf, North Carolina Fossil Club and USGS, NC, USA

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmiedl, Professor for Micropaleontology, Geological and Paleontological Institute,

University of Hamburg

The Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, Argyll, UK

Eiichi Setoyama, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA

András Szabolcs Sóron, PhD-student at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Jessica W. Spear, U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg, Coastal and Marine Science Center

Jan Steger, Austria Sonnberg im Muehlviertel

Morteza Taherpour, Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Islamic Azad University-Mashhad

branch, Iran, Masshad

Hal Ray Tichenor, Department of Geological Sciences, East Carolina University, NC, USA

Akira Tsujimoto, Department of Education, Shimane University, Shimane, Japan

Feifei Wang, Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, Qingdao, China

Brent Wilson, Petroleum Geoscience, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The

University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies

Team:

Michael Hesemann

Dieter Ketelsen Stefan Raveling

Karl-Otto Bock

Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt

Amateur foraminiferologists and

scientists of other disciplines:

Traute Bodien and Peter Apel, Germany, near Lübeck

Adrian Brokenshire, Dorset, UK

David Clark, USA

Jan Deppermann, Germany, Hamburg

Dirk ?, Germany, Kassel

Axel Cordes and Dirk Dettmers, Germany

David Fenwick, Penzance, UK, APHOTO, Germany

Cidalina Gomez, Azores, Portugal SEM images from her samples not yet online

Andreas Grant, Germany

Erwin Günther, Germany

Renate Hesemann, Germany, Köln

Helmut Krock, Germany

Manfred Kutscher, Kreidemuseum, Rügen, Germany, samples not yet processed

Peter Laging, GFG Lüneburg, Germany (samples from Cuba)

Prof. Lenzenweger, Austria,

Bram Langeveld, The Netherlands

Stephan Lorenz, Germany, Hamburg

Laurene Mainguy, France

Family Meyer, Germany, Hamburg

Herb Miracle, USA, Kentucky, Louisville

Dr. Ralf Nötzel, Netphen-Eschenbach im Siegerland, Germany

Family Novak, Czech Republic, Prague

Brian Ottway, Portugal, Lagos

Paolo Petracci, Cesena, Italy

Martina Pleyer and Ingo, Germany

Stefan Polkowsky, Germany, Hamburg

Michael Popp, Louisvillefossils Blog, USA, Kentucky, Louisville

Kirsten Quoll, Australia, Outback and Malaysia

Stefan Raveling, Oldenburg

Bernard Remaud, from Sables du monde, France

Mikkel Rødvig, Denmark

Dr. Michael Rötzer and Johann ?, Germany, near Regensburg

Eva, Stefan Rogge, Germany, Hamburg

Johann Schobert, Germany, Hirscheid

Horst Schomburg, Germany

Andreas Simon, Germany, Hamburg

Karl Stekiel, Germany

Thomas Steurer, Germany (sample from Illetes, Mallorca, not yet processed)

Brigitte Suhren and Jürgen Koch, Germany, Hamburg (mutual field trips, sharing of

samples)

Karina und Nils Thiede, Sternberg, Germany

Yasemin I. Tulu, USA, Michigan (consulting palaeontologist)

Roland Verreet, Germany, Aachen

Joachim Voß †, Germany

Georg Wawczyniak, Germany, optical images of plummercells

Erich Wiesner †, Germany, Frankfurt

Renate Wilcke-Launer, Germany, Hamburg

Sabine Wilcken, Germany, Hamburg

Fabrizio - our first scientific contributor - is again running an ISF

course - the 7th - in June. I strongly recommend participation as I

have learnt so much in the 2nd and 6th course. The list of senior lec-

turers is impressive. Besides Fabrizio knows how to entertain us in

the evenings and Urbino is a cute medieval university town. Get in

touch thru http://isf.tmsoc.org - Michael -

SEM-Images not specifically addressed are made by Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt/Michael Hesemann

Mikrobiologische Vereinigung and AG Mikropaläontologie im Naturwissenschafltichen Verein

Hamburg www.mikrohamburg.de and www.nwv-hamburg.de

Journals allowing reproduction of images:

Micropaleontology

Notebooks on Geology

Paleontologia Electronica