NODOSARIIDA Calkins, 1926

Vachard, D, Krainer, K & Lucas, SG, 2015, Late Early Permian (late Leonardian; Kungurian) algae, microproblematica, and smaller foraminifers from the Yeso Group and San Andres Formation (New Mexico; USA), Palaeontologia Electronica (English ed.) 3 (8), pp. 1-77 : 58

Order NODOSARIIDA Calkins, 1926

Superfamily ROBULOIDOIDEA Reiss, 1963 nom. translat. Loeblich and Tappan, 1964 emend. Gaillot and Vachard, 2007

Description. See Gaillot and Vachard, 2007.

Remarks. The study of the Nodosariata is particularly difficult and requires many biometric studies ( Sellier de Civrieux and Dessauvagie, 1965; Gerke, 1967; Ruget, 1976; Hohenegger, 1997; Karavaeva and Nestell, 2007). Gaillot and Vachard (2007) proposed to subdivide the Palaeozoic Nodosariata into two superfamilies: 1) Robuloidoidea , with a primitive aperture (generally round, areal and simple), and; 2) Nodosarioidea Ehrenberg, 1838 nom. translat. Loeblich and Tappan, 1961, with the typical stellate radial aperture of the post-Palaeozoic Nodosariata. The exact period of appearance of this type of aperture during the Permian is not yet precisely known, but it probably occurs during the evolution of Protonodosaria and/ or Nodosinelloides to Nodosaria sensu stricto (the two types of apertures are present together in the Nodosaria of Woszczynska’s paper (1987): for example, N. candida Woszczynska, 1987 , is really a Nodosaria “with a neck and radiate aperture”, whereas N. polonica Woszczynska, 1987 belongs to another genus because of its “aperture terminal rounded”).