Planktonic Collection

Globorotalia scitula, foraminifera fossil
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image showing a fossilised planktonic species of foraminifera

Foraminifer model
Model of typical nummulitic foraminfer after Zittel

Planktonic crustaceans: Limnadia hermani and Branchinecta
Planktonic crustaceans: Limnadia hermani 1 and fairy shrimp, Branchinecta paludosa 2. Limnadia d Hermann, Brachipo dei paduli. Lofiropi. Branchiopodi

Brachionus angularis rotifer
Brachionus angularis species of planktonic rotifer (Aculeated brachionus, Brachionus aculeatus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

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

Radiolaria models
Models of two radiolaria made in papier mache by Vaclav Fric

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

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

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

Foraminifera and ostracods models
Bees wax models of foraminifera and ostracods made by Clive Sheppard for an exhibition in the Invertebrates Gallery, at the Natural History Museum, London

Radiolarian model
Galls model of radiolarian by Blaschka, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Foraminifera models
One drawer containing some of d Orbigny models and slides previously displayed alongside the models in the galleries

Foraminifera
Part of the display of foraminifera from The Great Exhibition of 1851. Featured are specimens from the London Clay, the Paris Basin and the Gulf of Suez

Visbyshaera oligofurcata, acritarch
Scanning electron microscope image of a microfossil belonging to a group of marine phytoplanktonic organisms known as acritarchs that teemed in Silurian seas about 415 Ma ago

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

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

Cleodora sp. holoplanktonic mollusc
Fossilised specimen of holoplantktonic molluscs originating from Pliocene rocks, near Turin, Italy

Emiliania huxleyi coccosphere
Coccosphere of Emiliania huxleyi from the Western Mediterranean. E. huxleyi is one of the most widespread species on earth

Remopeurides, a fossil trilobite
Probably planktonic, Remopeurides is a small trilobite - this Scottish Ordovician example being less than 2 cm long - with an inflated glabella

Ciliate plankton
Scanning electron microscope image of a ciliate showing clearly the microscopic hairs or cilia that they use for movement and feeding (x 700)

Acanthoica acanthifera

Calanoid, planktonic copepod
Copepods are crustaceans which live in oceans and freshwater and which function as an essential link in aquatic food chains

Acanthowetra
A photograph of a foraminifera found in the Indian Ocean

Foraminiferan remains from the White Cliffs of Dover, U.K. The cliffs are made up of unimaginable numbers of chalky shells of long dead marine animals

Daphnia, water flea
A close-up of a water flea (Daphnia sp.), a tiny planktonic crustacean

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

Native necklace of fossil foraminifera (Alveolinae)
Native necklace of fossil foraminifera from John Whittakers cabinet, fossils dating from the Eocene Limestone, Sindh, India

Didymograptus, graptolite
Didymograptus, Ordovician tuning-fork planktonic graptolites. Graptolites are an extinct group of marine, colonial animals

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