Steve M., some months back I linked to a California Current foraminifer study that showed things as fairly flat there through the MWP and LIA.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allen and the "Cool" Medieval Pacific « Climate Audit] Reference

(H) Abundances of the foraminifer Globigerina bulloides in Cariaco Basin sediments are higher during glacial advances indicating stronger trade winds (20).    From Wordnik.com.  [LIA and MWP in Venezuela « Climate Audit] Reference

Relative abundance variations of the planktic foraminifer Globigerinoides sacculifer and àƒÅ½à‚ⲱ8O measured G. ruber white variety in core PBBC1 plotted against calibrated years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulf of Mexico SST Proxy « Climate Audit] Reference

It may seem a small thing to admit that the dull vital actions of a fungus, or a foraminifer, are the properties of their protoplasm, and are the direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

These micro-organisms are found in just a few pieces of amber among the thousands that have been studied, but show a remarkable diversity: unicellular algae, mainly diatoms found in large numbers, traces of animal plankton, such as radiolaria and a foraminifer, spiny skeletons of sponges and of echinoderms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

18O record of the shells of the benthic foraminifer.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Content on CO2 Science] Reference

A foraminifer, or a fresh-water polype is capable of feeling; and, in spite of Shakspere, I have doubts about the great sensitiveness of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays] Reference

I don’t know a whole lot about the fineness of the foraminifer paleo record, but note that something like the Holocene maximum which lasted many centuries would be far more obvious in the record than the much shorter MWP.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warmest in a Millll-yun Years « Climate Audit] Reference