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Description: | Foraminifera are marine microfossils that secrete a hard test or skeleton. Most types can only be seen with a microscope, but Nummulites is unusually large and grew up to 12cm in diameter. Their name is taken from the Latin word Nummulus that means small coin, which they look like. They lived on the floor of warm shallow subtropical seas and often occurred in great abundance to form limestone. The pyramids in Egypt are built out of Nummulites limestones. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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