Robertinida

Lamarckina sp., from Todd (1965).

Belongs within: Globothalamea.
Contains: Epistomininae.

The Robertinida are a group of calcareous Foraminifera known from the Jurassic (possibly Triassic) to the present, in which the test wall is composed of aragonite rather than calcite (Loeblich & Tappan 1964b).

Characters (from Loeblich & Tappan 1964b): Test trochospiral, chambers divided internally by partitions; wall perforate-radial in structure, of aragonite; aperture a low slit in chamber face, with secondary aperture in each septum above partition.

<==Robertinida [Robertinacea]
    |--Robertinidae [Robertininae] LT64a
    |    |--Cerobertina Finlay 1939 LT64b
    |    |    `--*C. bartrumi Finlay 1939 LT64b
    |    |--Alliatina Troelsen 1954 LT64b
    |    |    `--*A. excentrica (di Napoli Alliata 1952) [=Cushmanella excentrica] LT64b
    |    |--Alliatinella Carter 1957 LT64b
    |    |    `--*A. gedgravensis Carter 1957 LT64b
    |    |--Geminospira Makiyama & Nakagawa 1941 LT64b
    |    |    `--*G. simaensis Makiyama & Nakagawa 1941 LT64b
    |    |--Pseudobulimina Earland 1934 LT64b
    |    |    `--*P. chapmani (Heron-Allen & Earland 1922) [=Bulimina chapmani] LT64b
    |    |--Cushmanella Palmer & Bermúdez 1936 LT64b
    |    |    `--*C. brownii (d’Orbigny in de la Sagra 1839) [=Nonionina brownii] LT64b
    |    |--Ungulatella Cushman 1931 LT64b
    |    |    `--*U. pacifica Cushman 1931 LT64b
    |    |--Colomia Cushman & Bermúdez 1948 LT64b
    |    |    |--*C. cretacea Cushman & Bermúdez 1948 LT64b
    |    |    `--C. californica M08
    |    |--Robertina d’Orbigny 1846 C40
    |    |    |--*R. arctica d’Orbigny 1846 C40
    |    |    `--R. charlottensis C40
    |    `--Robertinoides Höglund 1947 LT64b
    |         |--*R. normani (Goës 1894) [=Bulimina normani] LT64b
    |         `--R. bradyi JW99
    `--Ceratobuliminidae LT64a
         |--Epistomininae LT64a
         `--Ceratobulimininae LT64b
              |--Cassidulinita Suzin in Voloshinova & Dain 1952 (see below for synonymy) LT64b
              |    `--*C. prima Suzin in Voloshinova & Dain 1952 LT64b
              |--Ceratocancris Finlay 1939 LT64b
              |    `--*C. clifdenensis (Finlay 1939) [=Ceratobulimina (*Ceratocancris) clifdenensis] LT64b
              |--Ceratolamarckina Troelsen 1954 LT64b
              |    `--*C. tuberculata (Brotzen 1948) [=Ceratobulimina tuberculata] LT64b
              |--Praelamarckina Kaptarenko-Chernousova 1956 LT64b
              |    `--*P. humilis Kaptarenko-Chernousova 1956 LT64b
              |--Roglicia van Bellen 1941 LT64b
              |    `--*R. sphaerica van Bellen 1941 LT64b
              |--Rubratella Grell 1956 LT64b
              |    `--*R. intermedia Grell 1956 LT64b
              |--Pseudolamarckina Myatlyuk in Rauzer-Chernousova & Fursenko 1959 LT64b
              |    |--*P. rjasanensis (Uhlig 1883) [=Pulvinulina rjasanensis] LT64b
              |    `--P. reussi BL79
              |--Conorboides Hofker in Thalmann 1952 (see below for synonymy) LT64b
              |    |--*C. mitra (Hofker 1951) [=*Conorbis mitra] LT64b
              |    |--C. hofkeri BL79
              |    `--C. umiatensis (Tappan 1957) [=*Nanushukella umiatensis] LT64b
              |--Ceratobulimina Toula 1915 [=Fissistomella Clodius 1922; incl. Ceratobuliminoides Parr 1950] LT64b
              |    |--*C. contraria (Reuss 1851) [=Rotalina contraria, *Fissistomella contraria] LT64b
              |    |--C. bassensis (Parr 1950) [=*Ceratobuliminoides bassensis] LT64b
              |    |--C. cretacea C40
              |    |--C. lotosina M08
              |    `--C. pacifica C40
              `--Lamarckina Berthelin 1881 [incl. Megalostomina Rzehak 1891] LT64b
                   |--*L. erinacea (Karrer 1868) [=Pulvinulina erinacea] LT64b
                   |--L. fuchsi (Rzehak 1895) [=*Megalostomina fuchsi, Discorbina fuchsii Rzehak 1888 (n. n.)] LT64b
                   |--L. glabrata C40
                   |--L. glencoensis Q72
                   |--L. ripleyensis C40
                   `--L. wilcoxensis C40

Cassidulinita Suzin in Voloshinova & Dain 1952 [incl. Cassidulinella Suzin in Voloshinova & Dain 1952 non Natland 1940] LT64b

Conorboides Hofker in Thalmann 1952 [=Conorbis Hofker 1951 non Swainson 1840; incl. Nanushukella Tappan 1957] LT64b

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BL79] Basov, V. A., B. G. Lopatin, I. S. Gramberg, A. I. Danjushevskaya, V. Ya. Kaban’kov, V. M. Lazurkin & D. K. Patrunov. 1979. Lower Cretaceous lithostratigraphy near Galicia Bank. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 47: 683–717.

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

[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.

[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.

[M08] McMillan, I. K. 2008. Reappraisal of foraminiferal assemblages of the Santonia-Campanian Mzamba Formation type section, and their correlation with the stratigraphic succession of the KwaZulu Basin. African Natural History 4: 25–34.

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