Nonionidae

Nonion depressulum, copyright Bruce Hayward.

Belongs within: Rotaliida.

The Nonionidae are a group of Foraminifera known from the Upper Cretaceous to the present (Loeblich & Tappan 1964b).

Characters (from Loeblich & Tappan 1964b, as Nonioninae): Test planispiral and involute to slightly trochospiral; aperture interiomarginal and equatorial, or areal and multiple.

<==Nonionidae [Nonioninae]
    |--Bisaccium Andersen 1951 LT64b
    |    `--*B. imbricatum Andersen 1951 LT64b
    |--Chilostomellina Cushman 1926 LT64b
    |    `--*C. fimbriata Cushman 1926
    |--Cribropullenia Thalmann 1937 [=Antillesina Galloway & Heminway 1941] LT64b
    |    `--*C. marielensis (Palmer 1936) [=Nonion marielensis, *Antillesina marielensis] LT64b
    |--Nonionellina Voloshinova 1958 LT64b
    |    `--*N. labradrica (Dawson 1860) LT64b, H03 [=Nonionina labradrica H03]
    |--Spirotecta Belford 1961 LT64b
    |    `--*S. pellicula Belford 1961 LT64b
    |--Pullenia Parker & Jones in Carpenter, Parker & Jones 1862 LT64b
    |    |--*P. bulloides (d’Orbigny 1846) [=Nonionina bulloides; incl. N. sphaeroides d’Orbigny 1826 (n. n.)] LT64b
    |    |--P. coreyelli C40
    |    |--P. quinqueloba (Reuss 1851) [=Nonionina quinqueloba] H03
    |    |--P. salisburyi Stewart & Stewart 1930 H03
    |    `--P. subcarinata LT64a
    |--Nonionella Cushman 1926 LT64b
    |    |--*N. miocenica Cushman 1926 C40, H03 [incl. N. miocenica var. stella Cushman & Moyer 1930 H03]
    |    |--N. auris C40
    |    |--N. bradyi JW99
    |    |--N. globosa Ishiwada 1950 [incl. N. higashiyamaensis Matsunaga 1963] H03
    |    |--N. novozealandica H90
    |    `--N. turgida (Williamson 1858) [=Rotalina turgida] H03
    |--Astrononion Cushman & Edwards 1937 LT64b
    |    |--*A. stelligera (d’Orbigny in Barker-Webb & Berthelot 1839) [=Nonionina stelligera] LT64b
    |    |--A. centroplax Q72
    |    |--A. gallowayi LT64b
    |    |--A. novozealandicum JW99
    |    |--A. sidebottomi LT64b
    |    |--A. stellatus JW99
    |    `--A. tasmaniensis Q72
    |--Florilus de Montfort 1808 (see below for synonymy) LT64b
    |    |--*F. asterizans (Fichtel & Moll 1798) (see below for synonymy) LT64b
    |    |--F. basispinatus (Cushman & Moyer 1930) S-VC91
    |    |--F. costiferus LT64b
    |    |--‘Pseudononion’ granuloumbilicatus
    |    |--F. japonicus (Asano 1936) [=*Pseudononion japonicum] LT64b
    |    |--F. mexicanus (Cushman & McCulloch 1940) S-VC91
    |    |--F. scaphus JW99
    |    |--F. stachei H90
    |    |--F. transversus (Khalilov 1958) [=*Azera transversa] LT64b
    |    `--‘Pseudononion’ victoriense LJ98
    `--Nonion de Montfort 1808 [=Nonionia Risso 1826] LT64b
         |--*N. incrassatus (Fichtel & Moll 1798) [=Nautilus incrassatus, *Nonionia incrassata] LT64b
         |--N. akitaense Asano 1950 H03
         |--N. depressulum M62
         |--N. grateloupi LT64a
         |--N. incisum C40
         |--N. labradoricum C40
         |--N. maoricum B49
         |--N. pompilioides C40
         |--N. scaphum LT64a
         `--N. umbilicatus M62

Nomen nudum: Nonionella aberrans Rhumbler in Anonymous 1949 LT64b

Florilus de Montfort 1808 [=Nonionina d’Orbigny 1826; incl. Azera Khalilov 1958, Pseudononion Asano 1936] LT64b

*Florilus asterizans (Fichtel & Moll 1798) [=Nautilus asterizans, *Nonionina asterizans, *Florilus stellatus de Montfort 1808] LT64b

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[B49] Battey, M. H. 1949. The geology of the Tuakau-Mercer area, Auckland. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 77 (3): 429–455.

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

[H03] Hanagata, S. 2003. Miocene-Pliocene Foraminifera from the Niigata oil-fields region, northeastern Japan. Micropaleontology 49 (4): 293–340.

[H90] Hayward, B. W. 1990. Use of foraminiferal data in analysis of Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 20: 71–83.

[JW99] Jian, Z.-M., L.-J. Wang, M. Kienast, M. Sarnthein, W. Kuhnt, H.-L. Lin & P.-X. Wang. 1999. Benthic foraminiferal paleoceanography of the South China Sea over the last 40,000 years. Marine Geology 156: 159–186.

[LJ98] Li, Q., N. P. James, B. McGowran, Y. Bone & J. Cann. 1998. Synergetic influence of water masses and Kangaroo Island barrier on foraminiferal distribution, Lincoln and Lacepede shelves, South Australia: a synthesis. Alcheringa 22 (2): 153–176.

[LT64a] Loeblich, A. R., Jr & H. Tappan. 1964a. 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.

[LT64b] Loeblich, A. R., Jr & H. Tappan. 1964b. Sarcodina: chiefly “thecamoebians” and Foraminiferida. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt C. Protista 2 vol. 2. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press.

[M62] Monniot, F. 1962. Recherches sur les graviers a Amphioxus de la région de Banyuls-sur-Mer. Vie et Milieu 13: 231–322.

[Q72] Quilty, P. G. 1972. The biostratigraphy of the Tasmanian marine Tertiary. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 106: 25–44.

[S-VC91] Segura-Vernis, L. R., & A. L. Carreño. 1991. Foraminíferos y ostrácodos de la Laguna de La Paz, Baja California Sur, México. Inv. Mar. CICIMAR 6 (1): 195–224.