Apparently the last one was too easy, at least for our resident micropaleontologist. I'll explain it later, but before I bury myself in the bitter products of procrastination (known as work that could've been done much earlier at leisure, but instead will be done in a rush of madness right now... the story of my life, pretty much. Sigh), have another mystery micrograph to play with. These are a single genus.
To be referenced later; all scalebars = 1mm
dust bunnies?
ReplyDeleteHydrodictyon, perhaps? (complete guess based on no evidence whatsoever)
ReplyDeleteAydin: LOL... no they're real living organisms! =D
ReplyDeleteChristopher: nope, hydrodicty is much finer, and also much greener.
Keep going! Note the scalebar, btw...
I'm thinking that they're xenophyophores.
ReplyDeleteLana!!!1!11! Boy do I loves me some macroscopic protists...
ReplyDeleteWow, congrats, Neil! It definitely is Lana; didn't expect anyone to get it so quickly as Komokiaceans are quite obscure, even to protistologists.
ReplyDeleteI also love macroscopic protists... especially when they're sort of unicellular. Too bad most of them tend to drift around in the deep sea...
Well I guessed that they were Komokiaceans based on research for a blog post that I never actually published. But I have to admit that I resorted to Google Scholar to come up with the genus, fortunately the number of papers on Komokiaceans is low enough that I turned up the source of the picture in a few minutes.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog by the way, I don't know how it took me so long to find!