radiolaria
IPA: rˈeɪdioʊɫˈɑriʌ
noun
- The members of the taxonomic subclass Radiolaria; radiolarians.
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Examples of "radiolaria" in Sentences
- Diatomic structures, radiolaria, the things that we couldn't see but we can do now.
- The specimen brought up was a terrigenous blue mud (glacial deposit) with some radiolaria.
- Notes on the strontium content of sea water, Celestite radiolaria, and Strontianite snail shells.
- In the limestone, which is also on the whole horizontally bedded, only radiolaria have been found.
- After some success with formaminifera, factor analysis was used with radiolaria, diatoms, and pollen.
- This, indeed, is why oil companies employ fossil experts to identify particular strata of rocks, usually by microfossils, tiny creatures called foraminifera, for example, or radiolaria.
- So the historical inflection points are pretty well known within a couple of thousand years based on deep-sea sediment cores taken world-wide that looked at microfossils diatoms, foraminifera, radiolaria, coccoliths, pollen, dO18, and sediment chemistry.
- These micro-organisms are found in just a few pieces of amber among the thousands that have been studied, but show a remarkable diversity: unicellular algae, mainly diatoms found in large numbers, traces of animal plankton, such as radiolaria and a foraminifer, spiny skeletons of sponges and of echinoderms.
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