Loftusoidea Brady, 1884

Schlagintweit, Felix & Rashidi, Koorosh, 2017, Persiella Pseudolituus N. Gen., N. Sp., And Flabelloperforata Tarburensis N. Gen., N. Sp., Two New Larger Benthic Foraminifera From The Upper Maastrichtian Of Iran, Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 13 (2), pp. 3-19 : 7

Superfamily Loftusoidea Brady, 1884

?Family Spirocyclinidae (Munier-Chalmas, 1887) Maync, 1950

Remarks: The suprageneric position of Persiella remains unclear referring to its type of exoskeleton and wall structure. On the one hand, the coarse subepidermal network represents a typical feature of many spirocyclinids (see Albrich et al. 2015 for discussion) included in the superfamily Loftusoidea Brady. On the other hand, the canaliculated inner layer brings Persiella close to the superfamily Biokovinoidea Gušić. It is worth mentioning that the relevance of structural features, and wall structure, for the diagnosis of the families (and subfamilies) of the Loftusoidea is treated controversially. This leads to different generic composition of families and subfamilies (see Loeblich and Tappan, 1987; Kaminski, 2014; Albrich et al., 2015). Due to the morphological and structural affinities with Pseudocyclammina Yokoyama , and the coarse subepidermal network, Persiella n. gen. is tentatively assigned to the family Spirocyclinidae of the or- der Loftusoidea .