Elphidium macellum (Fichtel and Moll, 1798)

Figure 6.17

1798 Nautilus macellus Fichtel and Moll, p. 66, pl. 10, figs. h-k.

2002 Elphidium macellum (Fichtel and Moll); Kaminski, Aksu, Box, Hiscott, Filipescu, and Al-Salameen, p. 178, pl. 5, fig. 11.

2012 Elphidium macellum (Fichtel and Moll); Debenay, p. 220.

2012 Elphidium macellum (Fichtel and Moll); Milker and Schmiedl, p. 122, fig. 27.21-22.

2014 Elphidium macellum (Fichtel and Moll); Panchang and Nigam, pl. 38, fig. 10a-b.

Description. Test large, compressed, outline circular, wall perforate, surface reticulate, ornamented with small pustules near apertural region and the periphery, umbilical region flat; chambers many, narrow, chamber arrangement planispiral, coiling involute; periphery acute or angular with thin keel, slightly rounded in the final chambers, sutures strongly curved backwards; aperture a series of interiomarginal openings.