Figs. 6–7. Nannoplankton (extremely minute organisms or parts of organisms that were once part of the plankton. Size: about one hundredth of a millimetre. Coccoliths, which resemble discoasters, are discrete geometrical plates of calcium carbonate forming

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Figs. 6–7. Nannoplankton (extremely minute organisms or parts of organisms that were once part of the plankton. Size: about one hundredth of a millimetre. Coccoliths, whi

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Figs. 1–5. Foraminifera (Protozoa, primitive one-celled animals with hard shells of lime or agglutinated sandgrains and growing by adding chambers in a variety of ways, fairly constant for each species). Size range: 0.01 mm.-3 c.m. Fig. 1, Notorotalia tar

Figs. 6–7. Nannoplankton (extremely minute organisms or parts of organisms that were once part of the plankton. Size: about one hundredth of a millimetre. Coccoliths, which resemble discoasters, are discrete geometrical plates of calcium carbonate forming

Fig. 8. Triceratium crenulatum a diatom described by Grove and Sturt from the Upper Eocene, Oamaru diatomite. Diatoms, which are classified under the plant kingdom, secrete minute, hard, geometrically perfect tests of opaline silica, consisting of two hal

Figs. 9–10. Radiolaria (minute Protozoa containing an outer skeleton of silica in the form of a lattice of great variety and geometrical perfection). Fig. 9, spherical radiolarian abundant in Eocene rocks in New Zealand. Fig. 10, radiolarian from the basa

Figs. 11–15. Five genera of Ostracoda particularly distinctive of the New Zealand fauna (minute primitive crustacea protected by a paired, hinged limey shell, the two halves of which are termed valves. Some families develop interlocking teeth and sockets

Fig. 16. Sponge spicules from the Oamaru diatomite. Some types of sponges contain a supporting skeleton of glassy spicules, common as fossils

Fig. 17. Patsyella dentata (Mt. Brown Limestone, Miocene). An example of a polyzoa or bryozoan (minute animals which form colonies, usually encrusting on rocks or shells of other animals but sometimes filamentous and branching. The peculiar, barnacle-like

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