foraminiferon

English

Noun

foraminiferon (plural foraminifera or foraminiferons)

1. (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).