Globigerina is a genus of planktonic foraminifera, single-celled marine organisms that build a perforated shell, found drifting in the ocean's upper waters worldwide. First formally described by French naturalist Alcide d'Orbigny in 1826, the genus has a fossil record stretching back to the Middle Jurassic period, making it one of the longer continuously represented lineages of plankton, and its shells, along with those of related planktonic foraminifera, are a major component of deep-sea sediment used by scientists to study past ocean conditions.
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1. Wikipedia: Globigerina
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It has populated the world's oceans since the Middle Jurassic.
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Globigerina
In Group: Foraminifera and Radiolarians, Lead
Globigerina () is a genus of planktonic Foraminifera, in the order of Rotaliida.
In Biome: Marine, Article text: "Vast areas of the ocean floor are covered with G"
Vast areas of the ocean floor are covered with Globigerina ooze, dominated by the foraminiferous shells of Globigerina and other Globigerinina.
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Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ5571051, descriptionView the Source Wikidata: Globigerina
- Wikidata Q5571051, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Child Taxon Of: Eukarya, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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