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Although most forams with coiled shells are planospiral like the two in Aydin's sample illustrations, many have a helical called trochospiral by specialists form, like Ceratobulimina, the illustration in the center of the composite.
A shell of a different kind AYDIN 2006
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Petroleum geologists, applying their or others' micropaleontology, exploited close correlations between the occurrence of trochospiral forams, often diagnosed principally on their chirality, and fuel in the fossil record as an invaluable technique in oil prospecting.
A shell of a different kind AYDIN 2006
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