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Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

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Forams are small and shelly. This foram belongs to the species Dentoglobigerina altispira, which went extinct about 3 million years ago, potentially due to northern hemisphere ice sheet expansion.

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Adam Woodhouse

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