“…Large bioherms up to 1 m in height extending for several kilometres framed by the agglutinated foraminifer Bdelloidina occur in the Lower Cretaceous inner carbonate platform facies of the Urgonian of Haute-Savoie, France (e.g., Schulte et al, 1993;Wernli and Schulte, 1993). Cyanobacteria and algae associated with encrusting foraminifers have been described from the Upper Frasnian unit of Belgium (Denayer, 2018) and the lower Permian units of southern Kansas, northern Oklahoma, Texas, and southern New Mexico, variously named 'algal biscuits' and 'osagic grains' (e.g., Johnson, 1946;Toomey et al, 1988;Scholle et al, 2016). Major attention was also paid to the study of the role of encrusting foraminifers in the growth of deep-sea non-carbonate macroids (i.e., manganese nodules) and crusts, since the discovery of these firmgrounds (e.g., Wendt, 1969;Tucker, 1973;Greenslate, 1974;Dugolinsky et al, 1977;Mullineaux, 1988;Pattan, 1993).…”