foraminifera
- n foraminifers
- Keller believes she has evidence that they were, thanks to microscopic fossils of foraminifera, a type of plankton that largely died with the dinosaurs.
- They were found in an ancient seabed in the Pondaung Hills west of Mandalay, embedded below a layer of marine organisms called foraminifera, dating from about 40 million years ago.
- The foraminifera aren't picky; they just incorporate oxygen into their shells, in whichever form.