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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Rotalioidea Ehrenberg, 1839

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Rotalioidea

Citation: Rotalioidea Ehrenberg, 1839
Taxonomic rank: superfamily
Described on page(s) : Chart I, opposite p. 120, as family Rotalina
Type age (chronostrat): Upper Cretaceous (Coniacian) to Holocene.

Current identification/main database link: Rotalioidea Ehrenberg, 1839


Original Description

[Original text]: Rädchen-Corallen.

[Google Translated from German]: Wheel corals.

[Loeblich and Tappan, 1988, description of superfamily Rotaliacea, p. 652]: Test enrolled in a trochospiral or planispiral coil, involute to evolute, commonly with many small chambers in numerous whorls; as new chambers are added septal flap attaches to previous apertural face and encloses radial canals, fissures, umbilical cavities, and intraseptal and subsutural canals; wall of perforate, hyaline calcite, generally optically radial in structure, or rarely hyaline oblique and optically granular; primary aperture single or multiple, interiomarginal to areal, may be absent on final chamber and only an intercameral foramen is present; small openings into the canal system may occur along the sutures but do not communicate with the chamber interior.

References:

Ehrenberg, C. G. (1839). Über die Bildung der Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels durch unsichtbare Organismen. Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1839: 59-147. gs

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