Neorotalia calcar (d'Orbigny, 1839)

Symphonia, Tabita K. & Senthil, Nathan D., 2019, Taxonomic notes on Recent Foraminifera from the Continental Shelf-Slope Region of Southwestern Bay of Bengal, East Coast of India, Palaeontologia Electronica (55 A) 22 (3), pp. 1-89 : 20

Neorotalia calcar (d’Orbigny, 1839a)

Figure 5.3-6

1839a Calcarina calcar d’Orbigny , p. 81, pl. 5, figs. 22-24.

2012 Neorotalia calcar (d’Orbigny) ; Debaney, pp. 204-205.

Description. Test biconvex, wall calcareous, perforate, surface ornamented with distinct, round and thick pustules on the dorsal side, ridges and many umbilical knobs on the ventral side; chambers many, slightly inflated and coiling evolute on the spiral side, involute on the umbilical side, trochospirally arranged; periphery angular, star-shaped with stout spines, sutures tilted and slightly depressed on the spiral side, radial and depressed on the umbilical side; primary aperture umbilical, low-arched opening bordered by a lip, secondary apertures peripheral, bordered by a lip.

Figures

FIGURE 5. 1-2, Rotalinoides gaimardii (d’Orbigny, 1826) in dorsal view (scale equals 200 μm) (1) and in ventral view (scale equals 300 μm) (2). 3-6, Neorotalia calcar (d’Orbigny, 1839) in dorsal view (scale equals 400 μm) (3); in ventral view (scale equals 300 μm) (4); elongate form in dorsal view (scale equals 400 μm) (5); and elongate form in ventral view (scale equals 400 μm) (6). 7-8. Pararotalia boltovskoyi Jain and Bhatia, 1978 in dorsal view (scale equals 200 μm) (7) and in ventral view (scale equals 200 μm) (8). 9-10, Pararotalia calcariformata McCulloch, 1977 in dorsal view (scale equals 200 μm) (9) and in ventral view (scale equals 200 μm) (10). 11-12, Pararotalia nipponica Asano, 1936 in dorsal view (scale equals 200 μm) (11) and in ventral view (scale equals 300 μm) (12). 13-14, Pararotalia venusta (Brady, 1884) in dorsal view (scale equals 300 μm) (13) and in ventral view (scale equals 300 μm) (14). 15-16, Calcarina hispida Brady, 1876 in dorsal view (scale equals 500 μm) (15) and in ventral view (scale equals 500 μm) (16).

FIGURE 6. 1-2, Calcarina spengleri (Gmelin, 1791) in dorsal view (scale equals 500 μm) (1) and in ventral view (scale equals 500 μm) (2). 3, Cribroelphidium excavatum (Terquem, 1875) in ventral view (scale equals 100 μm). 4, Cribroelphidium poeyanum (d’Orbigny, 1826) in dorsal view (scale equals 100 μm). 5, Elphidiella hannai (Cushman and Grant, 1927) in ventral view (scale equals 200 μm). 6, Elphidium advenum subsp. limbatum (Chapman, 1907) in dorsal view (scale equals 200 μm). 7, Elphidium advenum var. depressulum Cushman, 1933 in ventral view (scale equals 200 μm). 8, Elphidium asiaticum Polski, 1959 in ventral view (scale equals 100 μm). 9, Elphidium botaniense Albani, 1981 in ventral view (scale equals 200 μm). 10, Elphidium carteri Hayward in Hayward, Hollis and Grenfell, 1997 in dorsal view (scale equals 100 μm). 11, Elphidium charlottense (Vella, 1957) in dorsal view (scale equals 200 μm). 12, Elphidium charlottense (Vella, 1957) in apertural view (scale equals 200 μm). 13, Elphidium craticulatum (Fichtel and Moll, 1798) in dorsal view (scale equals 400 μm). 14, Elphidium crispum (Linnaeus, 1758) in dorsal view (scale equals 300 μm). 15-16, Elphidium hispidulum Cushman, 1936 in apertural view (scale equals 300 μm) (15) and in dorsal view (scale equals 300 μm) (16). 17, Elphidium macellum (Fichtel and Moll, 1798) in dorsal view (scale equals 300 μm). 18, Elphidium somaense Takayanagi, 1955 in ventral view (scale equals 200 μm). 19, Elphidium striatopunctatum (Fichtel and Moll, 1798) in dorsal view (scale equals 400 μm). 20, Nonion fabum (Fichtel and Moll, 1798) in dorsal view (scale equals 200 μm).