Nodosaria maoensis Bermúdez, 1949

Bergh, Eugene W. & Compton, John S., 2022, Taxonomy of Middle Miocene foraminifera from the northern Namibian continental shelf, Zootaxa 5091 (1), pp. 1-55 : 10

Nodosaria maoensis Bermúdez, 1949

Pl. 1, fig. 16

Bermúdez, 1949, p. 145, pl. 9, fig. 53.

Description: The test wall is calcareous, hyaline. The test is elongate, multilocular and uniserial. The chambers are ovate in shape and covered in four longitudinal costae that run along the length of the test surface. The chambers gradually increase in size towards the terminal end. The aperture is terminal.

Remarks: Few tests of this species were recorded. They were broken, comprising <1% of the total foraminiferal assemblage in core 2670. The tests are long and thin (0.2 mm in cross-section and up to 2.5 mm long).

Life strategy: Species from the genus Nodosaria have been classified as infaunal, under suboxic conditions ( Kaiho, 1994).

Global stratigraphic range: This species has been recorded to occur in the middle Miocene ( Bermúdez, 1949).

Regional occurrence: N. maoensis is documented to occur in middle Miocene sediments of the Namibian outer continental shelf, south of the Kunene River mouth (this study).