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Loeblich, A. R., Tappan, H. N., 1987: Foraminiferal genera and their classification. Van Nostrand, Reinhold Co. New York 1728 pp. Plate 104, Figs. 9-11: U. Cretaceous or Paleocene; Qatar Peninsula, Arabia. 9, Holotype, surface partially abraded, x 26; 10, sketch of initial chambers of holotype showing early planispiral coil and later peneropliform growth, enlarged; 11, diagram of chamber, enlarged, shown as cut progressively deeper from left to right, with subepidermal mesh (s) near the surface; second order beams (sb); radial beams (b); and aperture (a) in the equatorial plane (from Cherchi and Schroeder, 1978).
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Loeblich, A. R., Tappan, H. N., 1987: Foraminiferal genera and their classification. Van Nostrand, Reinhold Co. New York 1728 pp. Plate 106, Figs. 1-6: L. Cretaceous. 1-3, U. Aptian, Spain. 1, Oblique horizontal section of large discoidal microspheric test showing early coil and earliest cyclic chambers, x 20; 2, axial section of megalospheric test, x 50; 3, centered equatorial section of megalospheric test showing early coil, x 50 (1-3, from Cherchi and Schroeder, 1983); 4, 5, Aptian, France; 4, transverse section showing alveolar wall, x 17; 5, oblique horizontal section, x 17 (4, 5, from Deloffre, 1961); 6, U. Aptian or L. Albian, N. Croatia, approximately centered median section of microspheric test, x 18, (from Gušic, 1975).
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Loeblich, A. R., Tappan, H. N., 1987: Foraminiferal genera and their classification. Van Nostrand, Reinhold Co. New York 1728 pp. Plate 105, Figs. 1-4: M. Jurassic (Bathonian), Saudi Arabia. 1, 2, Opposite sides of holotype, x 35; 3, 4, thick median section of paratype, x 35 and x 84, showing the agglutinated wall containing pellets, beams perpendicular to the septa, and a few horizontal rafters in the penultimate and antepenultimate chambers (1, 2, 4, from Loeblich and Tappan, 1986; 3, new figure in Loeblich and Tappan, 1987).
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Loeblich, A. R., Tappan, H. N., 1987: Foraminiferal genera and their classification. Van Nostrand, Reinhold Co. New York 1728 pp. Plate 100, Figs. 4-9: Jurassic, Switzerland. 4, Axial section, x 64; 5, centered equatorial and longitudinal section showing many coils, thick septa, and alveolar outer wall, x 100; 6-8, face view and opposite sides of holotype, x 64; 9, equatorial section showing thick septa, x 64 (4, 6-9 from Maync, 1958; 5, from Hottinger, 1967).
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Loeblich, A. R., Tappan, H. N., 1987: Foraminiferal genera and their classification. Van Nostrand, Reinhold Co. New York 1728 pp. Plate 107, Figs. 7-13: U. Cretaceous. 7-10, U. Santonian, Les Martigues, France; 7, Exterior of holotype, x 18; 8, equatorial section of specimen with flabelliform test, x 33; 9, young specimen with peneropliform test, x 24; 10, equatorial section of specimen with early coil and later cyclic chambers, x 32; 11-13, Coniacian-Santonian, Sierra de Montsech, Spain; 11, 12, top and side views of flabelliform test, x 14; 13, tangential to subequatorial section of probably megalospheric flabelliform test with large proloculus, radial beams visible near the surface in the tangential part of the section at left, x 24 (from Aubert et al., 1963).
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Loeblich, A. R., Tappan, H. N., 1987: Foraminiferal genera and their classification. Van Nostrand, Reinhold Co. New York 1728 pp. Plate 102, Figs. 4-6: U. Jurassic. 4, 5, Kimmeridgian, Japan; 4, equatorial section, x 12; 5, median section, x 20; 6, Kimmeridgian-Portlandian, Poland, exterior of coiled to rectilinear individual, x 20 (all from Maync, 1959).
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View of a hypotype. Test is 2.8 mm across. This species is probably the same as
C. cancellata. Image courtesy of David B. Scott, Dalhousie University. This image was originally published in
Palaeologica Electronica, vol. 3, issue 2, and is used with the kind permission of that journal and the Paleontological Association.
