Nummulites Lamarck, 1801

Torres-Silva, Ana. I., Eder, Wolfgang, Hohenegger, Johann & Briguglio, Antonino, 2018, Morphometric analysis of Eocene nummulitids in western and central Cuba: taxonomy, biostratigraphy and evolutionary trends, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17 (7), pp. 557-595 : 575

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/14772019.2018.1446462
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10927165
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scientific name	Nummulites Lamarck, 1801
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Genus Nummulites Lamarck, 1801 View in CoL

Type species. Nummulites laevigatus View in CoL (Bruguíere, 1792).

Diagnosis. Planispiral, involute, lenticular to globular, spire tight with numerous whorls. Many simple chambers per whorl, which are rather equidimensional, septa curved back at the periphery and may be sigmoidal. The marginal cord is well developed.

Characters and attributes (means and standard deviations) for Nummulites and comparison with Palaeonummulites and Operculinoides are given in Table 2 View Table 2 .

Range. Late Paleocene to Oligocene.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Chromista
Phylum	Foraminifera
Class	Globothalamea
Order	Rotaliida
Family	Nummulitidae

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