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Fossil benthic and planktonic foraminifers play a major role in paleontology, first of all as a stratigraphic tool, but also in paleoecology, paleoclimatology, paleoceanography and paleobiogeography. Recent foraminifers are abundant and diverse in nearly all modern marine ecosystems, and although little is known about their life as organisms, they are among the most important marine animal groups (Bernstein et al., 1978; Gooday, 1986, 1988; Hemleben et al., 1989; Lipps, 1983; Murray, 1973; Tendal & Hessler, 1977; Thiel, 1975, 1983).
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Tendal, O.S. (1990). Why are Foraminiferida Foraminifers ?. In: Hemleben, C., Kaminski, M.A., Kuhnt, W., Scott, D.B. (eds) Paleoecology, Biostratigraphy, Paleoceanography and Taxonomy of Agglutinated Foraminifera. NATO ASI Series, vol 327. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3350-0_2
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