Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

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International Session (Oral)

Symbol B (Biogeosciences) » B-PT Paleontology

[B-PT03] Biomineralization and the Geochemistry of Proxies -Field ecology, Laboratory culture and Paleo

Sun. May 22, 2016 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM 101B (1F)

Convener:*Takashi Toyofuku(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)), Hiroshi Kitazato(Institute of Biogeosciences (BioGeos),Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)), Jelle Bijma(Alfred-Wegener-Institut fur Polar- und Meeresforschung), Simon Redfern(University of Cambridge), Chair:Hiroshi Kitazato(Institute of Biogeosciences (BioGeos),Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC))

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

[BPT03-01] Foraminifera: Story teller of both Earth's environments and biotic evolution

*Hiroshi Kitazato1 (1.Tokyo University of Marine Sciences and Technology (TUMSAT))

Keywords:Foraminifera, Earth's history, biotic evolution

Foraminifers are marine protists that are evolved since the late Proteozoic. They take part in marine biogeochemical cycles in particular to either carbon or nitrogen cycles. Foraminifers have appeared in the begining of eukaryotic evolution, and flourish up to the present. Both marine environmental changes and biotic evolution are able to know from foraminifera as they have quite good fossil records. However it has still not known well about foraminiferal biology. I try to focus in biological features of foraminifera and show its unique ecological and biological features.