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Haptophyte Collection

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Discosphaera tubifera, coccolithophore

Discosphaera tubifera, coccolithophore
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) showing the unicellular planktonic algae Discosphaera tubifera from the North Atlantic surrounded by a sphere of calcite plates - coccoliths

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Acanthoica acanthifera, coccosphere

Acanthoica acanthifera, coccosphere
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a coccosphere, collected in the North Atlantic (x 25, 000 on negative). Artificially coloured by computer

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Emiliana huxleyi, coccolith

Emiliana huxleyi, coccolith
Scanning electron microscope image of a complete sphere of coccoliths from modern oceans. These are thin calcite shells protecting the coccolithophore within

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Emiliania huxleyi coccolithophores

Emiliania huxleyi coccolithophores collected from a bloom in the SW Approaches to the English Channel in June 2004. Date: 2004

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Coccolith

Coccolith
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a Folkestone chalk surface with Cretaceous coccoliths (x2500 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Syracosphaera anthos

Syracosphaera anthos
Coccosphere from the Western Mediterranean. False coloured to show the shell is formed of inner and outer layers of coccoliths with very different structure

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Scyphosphaera apsteinii

Scyphosphaera apsteinii. SEM image of an equatorial coccolith

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Model of coccolith Kamptnerius magnificus

Model of coccolith Kamptnerius magnificus
Copy of the resin model of the coccolith Kamptnerius magnificus Deflandre, 1930 currently on display in the Earth Lab area of the Earth Galleries at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Ceratolithoides aculeus, coccolith

Ceratolithoides aculeus, coccolith
Scanning electron microscope image of an isolated coocolith from Cretaceous chalk. These are thin calcite shells protecting the coccolithophore within

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Florosphaera profunda, coccolith

Florosphaera profunda, coccolith
Scanning electron microscope image of a complete sphere of coccoliths from modern oceans. These are thin calcite shells protecting the coccolithophore within

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Emiliania huxleyi coccosphere

Emiliania huxleyi coccosphere
Coccosphere of Emiliania huxleyi from the Western Mediterranean. E

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Coccoliths

Coccoliths
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of coccoliths, these are the limestone scales surrounding the marine phytoplankton coccolithophores

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Acanthoica acanthifera

Acanthoica acanthifera

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Coccolithus pelagicus

Coccolithus pelagicus
Coccosphere of Coccolithus pelagicus, a common cold water coccolithophore. Collected from the British Continental shelf, North West of Scotland. Specimen diameter 15m. False-coloured SEM image

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Florisphaera profunda

Florisphaera profunda
A coccolithophore with highly modified, plate-like coccoliths

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Ophiaster formosus

Ophiaster formosus
A coccolithophore with long appendages formed of strings of highly modified coccoliths. Collected from the West Pacific. Specimen diameter 50m. False-coloured SEM image

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Pontosphaera japonica

Pontosphaera japonica. A coccolithophore with relatively large, flat, coccoliths. Collected from off Hawaii. Specimen diameter 22m. False-coloured SEM image

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Calyptrolithophora papillifera, holococcolith

Calyptrolithophora papillifera, holococcolith
An SEM of a holococcolith, a nano-fossil, with flat top

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Axopodorhabdus albianus, coccolith

Axopodorhabdus albianus, coccolith
Scanning electron microscope image of a Cretaceous coccolith from Folkestone Chalk (x 10, 000 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Coccoliths magnified a thousand times

Coccoliths magnified a thousand times
An illustration of Coccoliths magnified a thousand times. Coccoliths are micro-fossils and feature heavily in the composition of chalk

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Calcidiscus leptoporus and Syracolithus quadriperforatus, co

Calcidiscus leptoporus and Syracolithus quadriperforatus, co
In this scanning electron micrograph, the transition of a life-cycle stage in Calcidiscus is shown from the outer cover to the inner layer. Specimen taken from W. Mediterranean

Background imageHaptophyte Collection: Chalk

Chalk
A piece of flintless white chalk from the Upper Chalk, Flamborough, Yorks. Chalk is a sedimentary rock formed in deep seas


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