A foraminifer of the genus Nodosaria or of an allied genus.
When the foraminifer is alive, it floats freely in the sea, with a comparatively long and slender thread of its substance protruded through each hole in the shell.
This deposit consists mainly of the shells of a foraminifer called Globigerina bulloides, a figure of which is given on the opposite page.
We need not wonder if any sessile Foraminifer of the Nummuline group should prove to be a descendant of Eozoon.
It would be less likely that a Sponge or a Foraminifer of the Rotaline type should originate from it.
No amount of study of the prototypal Foraminifer could have led us distinctly to the conception of even a Sponge or a Polyp, much less of any of the higher animals.
A comparison of these last two will show that the loganite, which fills the ancient Foraminifer of Burgess, is a silicate nearly related in composition.
The body of the humblest Foraminifer is much more than this.
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