Planorbulina mediterranensis d’Orbigny, 1826

Figure 11.22

1826 Planorbulina mediterranensis d’Orbigny, p. 280, pl. 14, figs. 4-6.

2002 Planorbulina mediterranensis d’Orbigny; Kaminski, Aksu, Box, Hiscott, Filipescu, and Al-Salameen, p. 176, pl. 4, fig. 3a-b.

2006 Planorbulina mediterranensis d’Orbigny; Oflaz, p. 299, pl. 8, figs. 14-15.

2012 Planorbulina mediterranensis d’Orbigny; Milker and Schmiedl, p. 108, fig. 24.21-14.

Description. Test attached, outline circular, slightly convex on the spiral side, flat on the umbilical side, wall calcareous, coarsely perforate, surface with pustules; chamber arrangement trochospiral initially, later arranged in a circular plan; periphery lobulated, sutures depressed on the dorsal side, thick, imperforate and limbate on the ventral side; primary aperture interiomarginal, two openings diametrically placed on chamber ends, bordered by a lip, secondary extraumbilical openings.

Superfamily CHILOSTOMELLOIDEA Brady, 1881

Family ANOMALINIDAE Cushman, 1927

Genus RIMINOPSIS Revets, 1996

Riminopsis asterizans (Fichtel and Moll, 1798)

Figure 12.5

1798 Nautilus asterizans Fichtel and Moll, p. 37, pl. 3, figs. c-h.

1999 Nonion asterizans (Fichtel and Moll); Nigam and Khare, p. 298, pl. 6, fig. 3.

2014 Nonion asterizans (Fichtel and Moll); Panchang and Nigam, pl. 33, fig. 7a-b.

Description. Test symmetrical, outline circular, side view rounded, wall calcareous, finely perforate, surface smooth, umbilical region depressed, ornamented with granular pustules, pustules also along the sutures and the apertural face; chambers many, broad and low, chamber arrangement planispiral, coiling involute or slightly evolute; periphery angular, sutures distinct, slightly depressed and curved; aperture interiomarginal, short, narrow or rounded opening.