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Other Microfossils

These include a small teaching collection of radiolarians, and calcareous nannofossils (including coccoliths).

The microfossil collection includes mounted specimens as well as picked splits and samples of the source rocks for those splits.

Learn more about radiolarians

Learn more about calcareous nannofossils ("calc-nannos")

 

Radiolarian
Radiolarian, greatly enlarged

 

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