Graphic: An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand 1966.

Figs. 1–5. Foraminifera (Protozoa, primitive one-celled animals with hard shells of lime or agglutinated sandgrains and growing by adding chambers in a variety of ways, fairly constant for each species). Size range: 0.01 mm.-3 c.m. Fig. 1, Notorotalia targetensis (Miocene, Oamaru). Noto-rotalia is very characteristic of New Zea

Figs. 1–5. Foraminifera (Protozoa, primitive one-celled animals with hard shells of lime or agglutinated sandgrains and growing by adding chambers in a variety of ways, fairly constant for each species). Size range: 0.01 mm.-3 c.m. Fig. 1, Notorotalia targetensis (Miocene, Oamaru). Noto-rotalia is very characteristic of New Zea

Figs. 1–5. Foraminifera (Protozoa, primitive one-celled animals with hard shells of lime or agglutinated sandgrains and growing by adding chambers in a variety of ways, fairly constant for each species). Size range: 0.01 mm.-3 c.m. Fig. 1, Notorotalia targetensis (Miocene, Oamaru). Noto-rotalia is very characteristic of New Zea



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