Processes of extinction, especially selectivity, can be studied using the distribution of
species in morphospace. Random extinction reduces the number of species but has little …

Planktonic foraminiferal species identification is central to many paleoceanographic studies,
from selecting species for geochemical research to elucidating the biotic dynamics of …

Paleontologists generally use a low-cost electro-optical system to classify microfossils. This
manual identification is a time-consuming process and it may take about a long time …

Direct observations of marine ecosystems are inherently limited in their temporal scope. Yet,
ongoing global anthropogenic change urgently requires improved understanding of long …

Microfossils provide evidence and knowledge about the Earth, life, ecology, and biological
changes, and one way to access this knowledge is through the classification of microfossil …

Physical inspection and sorting of foraminifera is a necessity in many research labs, as
foraminifera serve as paleoenvironmental and chronostratigraphic indicators. In order to …

Abstract The Santa Barbara Basin is an extraordinary archive of environmental and
ecological change, where varved sediments preserve microfossils that provide an annual to …

This paper introduces ForametCeTera, a pioneering dataset designed to address the
challenges associated with automating the analysis of benthic foraminifera in sediment …

We apply deep metric learning for the first time to the problem of classifying planktic
foraminifer shells on microscopic images. This species recognition task is an important …

Microfossils are single-celled micro-organisms and are noted as a powerful analysis way in
earth sciences for determining geological age and in paleoenvironmental studies. However …