Nubeculariidae

Section of Pseudovermiporella sodalica, from Loeblich & Tappan (1964).

Belongs within: Miliolida.
Contains: Spiroloculina.

The Nubeculariidae are a group of often spreading or branched calcareous foraminifera known from the Middle Carboniferous to the present. Members of the subfamilies Nubeculariinae and some Nodobaculariinae have the test attached to their substrate; other members of the family have the test free (Loeblich & Tappan 1964).

Characters (from Loeblich & Tappan 1964): Test free or attached, planispiral or irregularly coiled, at least in early stages, later spreading or branched; aperture simple, rounded or slitlike or more rarely cribrate.

<==Nubeculariidae (see below for synonymy)
    |--Discospirina Munier-Chalmas 1902 (see below for synonymy) LT64
    |    `--D. italica (Costa 1856) (see below for synonymy) LT64
    |--Spiroloculininae LT64
    |    |--Spiroloculina LT64
    |    |--Cribrolinoides Cushman & LeRoy 1939 LT64
    |    |    `--*C. curta (Cushman 1917) [=Quinqueloculina disparilis var. curta] LT64
    |    `--Planispirinoides Parr 1950 LT64
    |         `--*P. bucculenta (Brady 1884) [=Miliolina bucculenta] LT64
    |--Nubeculariinae [Nubeculinellinae] LT64
    |    |  i. s.: Cornuspiramia Cushman 1928 [incl. Rhizonubecula Le Calvez 1935] LT64
    |    |           |--*C. antillarum (Cushman 1922) [=Nubecularia antillarum] LT64
    |    |           `--C. adherens (Le Calvez 1935) [=*Rhizonubecula adherens] LT64
    |    |         Nubeculopsis Collins 1958 LT64
    |    |           `--*N. queenslandica Collins 1958 LT64
    |    |         Webbina d’Orbigny in de la Sagra 1839 [=Arwebbum Rhumbler 1913, Webbum Rhumbler 1913] LT64
    |    |           `--*W. rugosa d’Orbigny in Barker-Webb & Berthelot 1839 [=*Arwebbum rugosum, *Webbum rugosum] LT64
    |    |--Nubeculinella Cushman 1930 C40, LT64
    |    |    `--*N. bigoti Cushman 1930 LT64
    |    |--Nubecularia Defrance 1825 C40
    |    |    |--*N. lucifuga Defrance 1825 LT64
    |    |    `--N. nitida Chapman 1909 F71
    |    `--+--Sinzowella Cushman 1933 C40
    |       |    `--*S. deformis (Karrer & Sinzow 1877) [=Nubecularia novorossica var. deformis] LT64
    |       `--+--Calcituba von Roboz 1884 C40, LT64
    |          |    `--*C. polymorpha von Roboz 1884 LT64
    |          `--Squamulina Schultze 1854 C40 (see below for synonymy)
    |               `--*S. laevis Schultze 1854 LT64
    |--Nodobaculariinae [Nodophthalmidiinae] LT64
    |    |--Nubeculina Cushman 1924 LT64
    |    |    `--*N. divaricata (Brady 1879) LT64 [=Sagrina divaricata LT64, Nubecularia divaricata C40]
    |    |--Orthella Bykova in Kiparisova et al. 1956 LT64
    |    |    `--*O. paalzowi Bykova in Kiparisova et al. 1956 LT64
    |    |--Meandroloculina Bogdanovich 1935 LT64
    |    |    |--*M. bogatschovi Bogdanovich 1935 LT64
    |    |    `--M. litoralis LT64
    |    |--Nodobaculariella Cushman & Hanzawa 1937 LT64
    |    |    |--*N. japonica Cushman & Hanzawa 1937 LT64
    |    |    `--N. atlantica C40
    |    |--Nodobacularia Rhumbler 1895 [incl. Gymnesina Colom 1959, Pseudonubeculina Bartenstein & Brand 1949] LT64
    |    |    |--*N. tibia (Jones & Parker 1860) [=Nubecularia tibia] LT64
    |    |    |--N. glomerosa (Colom 1959) [=*Gymnesina glomerosa] LT64
    |    |    `--‘Nubecularia’ nodulosa Chapman 1891 (see below for synonymy) LT64
    |    |--Vertebralina d’Orbigny 1826 LT64
    |    |    |--*V. striata d’Orbigny 1826 LT64
    |    |    |--V. catena H04
    |    |    |--V. furcata H04
    |    |    |--V. insignis H04
    |    |    `--V. mucronata H04
    |    `--Nodophthalmidium Macfadyen 1939 (see below for synonymy) LT64
    |         |--*N. compressum (Rhumbler 1906) [=Nodobacularia compressa] LT64
    |         |--N. costatum (Bogdanovich 1952) [=*Sarmatiella costata] LT64
    |         |--N. milletti C40
    |         |--N. obscurum (Bogdanovich 1960) [=*Foraminella obscura] LT64
    |         `--N. primum LT64
    `--Ophthalmidiinae [Holostreptae, Opthalmidiinae] LT64
         |--Ophthalmina Rhumbler 1936 LT64
         |    `--*O. kilianensis Rhumbler 1936 LT64
         |--Eosigmoilina Ganelina in Kiparisova et al. 1956 LT64
         |    `--*E. explicata Ganelina in Kiparisova et al. 1956 LT64
         |--Wiesnerella Cushman 1933 LT64
         |    `--*W. auriculata (Egger 1893) [=Planispirina auriculata] LT64
         |--Cornuloculina Burbach 1886 [=Hauerinella Schubert 1921] LT64
         |    `--*C. inconstans (Brady 1879) [=Hauerina inconstans, *Hauerinella inconstans] LT64
         |--Galeanella Kristan 1958 (see below for synonymy) LT64
         |    `--*G. tollmanni (Kristan 1957) [=*Galea tollmanni] LT64
         |--Glomulina Rhumbler 1936 LT64
         |    `--*G. fistulescens Rhumbler 1936 LT64
         |--Zoyaella Loeblich & Tappan 1962 [=Ceratina Goës 1894 nec Latreille 1802 nec Menge 1868] LT64
         |    `--*Z. trochamminoides (Goës 1894) [=*Ceratina trochamminoides, Fischerina trochamminoides] LT62
         |--Ophthalmidium Kübler & Zwingli 1870 (see below for synonymy) LT64
         |    |--*O. liasicum (Kübler & Zwingli 1866) [=*Oculina liasica] LT64
         |    |--O. acutimargo (Brady 1884) [=Spiroloculina acutimargo, *Spirophthalmidium acutimargo] LT64
         |    |--O. inconstans C40
         |    `--O. porosum Zwingli & Kübler 1870 C40
         |--Edentostomina Collins 1958 LT64
         |    |--*E. cultrata (Brady 1879) [=Miliolina cultrata] LT64
         |    |--E. durrandii [=Miliolina durrandii] LT64
         |    |--E. milletti [=Biloculina milletti] LT64
         |    `--E. rupertiana [=Miliolina rupertiana] LT64
         `--Pseudovermiporella Elliott 1958 LT64
              |--*P. sodalica Elliott 1958 VH01
              |--P. elliotti Erk & Bilgütay 1960 [=Vermiporella elliotti] VH01
              |--P. longipora (Praturlon 1963) VH01
              |--‘Anthracoporella’ mercurii Elliott 1968 VH01
              `--‘Vermiporella’ sumatrana Pia 1937 [incl. V. nipponica Endo in Endo & Kanuma 1954] VH01

Discospirina Munier-Chalmas 1902 [=Cyclophthalmidium Lister in Lankester 1903, Discospirinia (l. c.), Krumbachina Wiesner 1920; Discospiriniinae, Discospirininae, Krumbachininae] LT64

Discospirina italica (Costa 1856) [=Pavonina italica; incl. Orbitolites tenuissimus Carpenter in Carpenter & Jeffreys 1870, *Cyclophthalmidium tenuissimum, *Discospirina tenuissima, *Krumbachina tenuissima] LT64

Galeanella Kristan 1958 [=Galea Kristan 1957 nec Meuschen 1787 nec Smith 1817 nec Meyen 1833 nec Moerch 1852] LT64

Nodophthalmidium Macfadyen 1939 [incl. Foraminella Bogdanovich 1960 nec Sowerby 1835 nec Levinsen 1909; Sarmatiella Bogdanovich 1952] LT64

‘Nubecularia’ nodulosa Chapman 1891 [=*Pseudonubeculina nodulosa; incl. Lagenammina pyriformis, Nodophthalmidium pyriforme] LT64

Nubeculariidae [Calcitubida, Inaequilateralidae, Inequilateralidae, Nubecularida, Nubecularidae, Nubecularina, Nubecularinae, Ophtalmidiidae, Ophthalmididae, Ophthalmidiidae, Ovulinetta, Vertebralinidae]

Ophthalmidium Kübler & Zwingli 1870 [=Oculina Kübler & Zwingli 1866 non Lamarck 1816; incl. Spiropthalmidium Cushman 1927, Spirophthalmidium] LT64

Squamulina Schultze 1854 C40 [=Arsquamulum Rhumbler 1913 LT64; Squamulinida, Squamulinidae, Squamulinidea]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[C40] Cushman, J. A. 1940. Foraminifera: Their classification and economic use 3^rd ed. Harvard University Press: Cambridge (Massachusetts).

[F71] Fletcher, H. O. 1971. Catalogue of type specimens of fossils in the Australian Museum, Sydney. Australian Museum Memoir 13: 1–167.

[H04] Haeckel, E. 1899–1904. Kunstformen der Natur. Bibliographisches Institut: Leipzig und Wien.

[LT62] Loeblich, A. R., Jr & H. Tappan. 1962. Six new generic names in the Mycetozoida (Trichiidae) and Foraminiferida (Fischerinidae, Buliminidae, Caucasinidae, and Pleurostomellidae), and a redescription of Loxostomum (Loxostomidae, new family). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 75: 107–114.

[LT64] Loeblich, A. R., Jr & H. Tappan. 1964. Sarcodina: chiefly “thecamoebians” and Foraminiferida. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt C. Protista 2 vol. 1. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press.

[VH01] Vachard, D., M. Hauser, R. Martini, L. Zaninetti, A. Matter & T. Peters. 2001. New algae and problematica of algal affinity from the Permian of the Aseelah Unit of the Batain Plain (East Oman). Geobios 34 (4): 375–404.