Macrosystem of foraminifera

The object of investigation is gaining more profound knowledge about the little-investigated forms and analysis of the new data on the morphology of shells, the ultrastructure of the walls thereof and cytoplasma ultrastructure for creating the modern macrosystem of Foraminifera and determining the position thereof in the new system of protists. The researchers have disclosed a drastically new system of Foraminifera. The subtype includes seven classes, sixty one orders, including paleozoic forms, singled out four new classes, four subclasses and eighteen orders and disclosed the morpho-evolutionary regularities at the level of one-celled animals. The development of the bifontinal wall is considered as aromorphosis. The researchers have disclosed new data obtained in diagnosis and changed the positions, scope and ranks of numerous taxones. The obtained results are employed by geologic survey agencies for determining the age of oil- and gas-bearing deposits and by oceanological organizations for determining the productivity of aqueous masses. The new data relating to the systematics and ultrastructure of Foraminifera are used by micropaleontologists and the laboratory of stratigraphic investigation of the oil- and gas-bearing deposits. The obtained investigation results may find application in zoology, systematics of the Protozoa, micropaleontology, cytology and oceanologyAvailable from VNTIC / VNTIC - Scientific & Technical Information Centre of RussiaSIGLERURussian Federatio