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Noun
foraminiferon (plural foraminifera or foraminiferons)
- (obsolete, now nonstandard) Synonym of foraminifer
1833, The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers, page 11:In this process in foraminifera the nuclear fragmentation which Hertwig described in Actinosphaerium, and which Schaudinn identified with “Chromidien”-formation, is evidently the same thing as these processes which Carter and Wallich observed long ago and vaguely interpreted as reproductive processes. […] In some cases, as for example in Polystomella, the nucleus after fertilization multiplies by division until there are many of them in the young chambers of the developing foraminiferon.
1864 January, William King, “Natural-History Phenomena of the Atlantic Ocean (From Fraser’s Magazine)”, in W[alter] H[illiard] Bidwell, editor, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume LXI, New York, N.Y.: , page 19, column 1:Bailey and Ehrenberg, however, having detected fresh sarcode in the cavities of numerous foraminiferons shells procured from deep-sea bottoms, the one was led to suspect, and the other to conclude, that their animals actually lived in the depth which yielded them.
1898, The Journal of the Linnean Society, page 453:Specimen of Coral-rock, showing the new Arenaceous Foraminiferon Haddonia torresiensis, occurring in association with a Polytrema.
1899, Annals & Magazine of Natural History, pages 56 and 58:A well-distributed Cretaceous foraminiferon. […] Four specimens of this interesting foraminiferon were found in the Cambridge Greensand of Swaffham, […]
2002, Jean-Pierre Rozelot, editor, New Avenues for Astronomical Data Analysis, →ISBN, page 215:On one hand, foraminifera are complex objects with many morphological variations, and often broken or covered with sediments. […] In our system, the identification of a foraminiferon is based on the shape descriptions of its three characteristic views: the spiral view, the umbilical view, and the lateral view (cf. Figure 37).