Foraminifera fossils from Bahamas sand
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Foraminifera fossils
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The one at the top left is a foram, I would hazard a worn out Baculogypsina but the locality is wrong. (Baculogypsina is tropical Pacific, and common enough to built shores of "star sand", hoshi no suna in Japanese).
Top right and bottom right are most likely worn out fragments of echinoid (sea urchin) spines. Alternatively they might be worn out segments of Isis ("bamboo coral").
I am not sure about the one at bottom left, but it does not look like a foram to me.
They do not look like fossils either, especially the echinoid spines do not show any diagenesis, which in echinoid skeletal material starts very early.
Top right and bottom right are most likely worn out fragments of echinoid (sea urchin) spines. Alternatively they might be worn out segments of Isis ("bamboo coral").
I am not sure about the one at bottom left, but it does not look like a foram to me.
They do not look like fossils either, especially the echinoid spines do not show any diagenesis, which in echinoid skeletal material starts very early.
--ES