Foraminifera taxon details
Neorotalia cretacea Consorti, Frijia & Caus, 2017 †
1336978 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1336978)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Consorti, L.; Frijia, G.; Caus, E. (2017). Rotaloidean foraminifera from the Upper Cretaceous carbonates of Central and Southern Italy and their chronostratigraphic age. <em>Cretaceous Research.</em> 70: 226-243., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2016.11.004 [details] Available for editors 
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Neorotalia cretacea Consorti, Frijia & Caus, 2017 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1336978 on 2024-09-15
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Consorti, L.; Frijia, G.; Caus, E. (2017). Rotaloidean foraminifera from the Upper Cretaceous carbonates of Central and Southern Italy and their chronostratigraphic age. <em>Cretaceous Research.</em> 70: 226-243., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2016.11.004 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Original description Medium size, biconvex lamellar perforate shell with chambers arranged in a low trochospire. Both sides of the shell are strongly ornamented. Un-ornamented shell areas are perforated by pores of large calibre. Radial-to-vertical piles occupied the dorsal side, producing clearly visible rounded pustules on shell surface. Funnels developed between piles. The ventral side piles show a particular stellate disposition resembling a rose, due the radial arrangement of the thin funnels. Periphery of the shell is slightly keeled. Funnelled plug is surrounded by a thin spiral canal. The shell is composed of two to two and half whorls with trapezoidal chambers, relatively angular. The last whorl hosts 12e14 chambers. The proloculus is around 30 mm in diameter. Height of the shell varies from 0.52 to 0.58 mm, while the maximum diameter measured reaches 0.98 mm, producing a D/H average of 1.78. Canal system consists of a spiral canal present between two adjacent whorls and interconnected with reticulate canals of the central plug (funnels), and by a spiral (enveloping) and intraseptal interlocular canals. [details]Remark Originally published by Consorti et al. (2017) as Neorotalia? cretacea [details]
