Lituolida Lankester, 1885

Schlagintweit, Felix & Rashidi, Koorosh, 2025, Novalesia Producta (Magniez, 1972), A Little-Known Benthic Foraminifer From The Aptian Taft Formation Of Central Iran, Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 21 (1), pp. 81-88 : 81

Order Lituolida Lankester, 1885

Remarks: The order is defined as ‘Test free or attached, multilocular or becoming so, uniserial, biserial, multiserial, or coiled in early stage, later may uncoil; chamber interior simple, or may be partially divided by septula in advanced forms; wall agglutinated with organic, microgranular, or calcitic cement; simple and nonperforate’ ( Kaminski, 2014, p. 97). It should be stressed that, in any future classification, the term septula should (in our opinion) be replaced by the more neutral term partitions because the former are related to the foramina and exclude per definition exoskeletal beams (see Hottinger, 2006), that is dealt with in the genus Novalesia Magniez, 1974 herein. Another possibility would be an inclusion of Novalesia in another order, e.g. Loftusiida Kaminski & Mikhalevich, 2004 where the term internal partitions is used ( Kaminski, 2014, p. 101). This order includes morphologically and structurally (e.g., biserial compressed test, vertical and horizontal partitions) comparable taxa such Cuneolina d’Orbigny or Vercorsella Arnaud-Vanneau, 1980 ( Loeblich & Tappan, 1987; Kaminski, 2014). Without indicating any taxonomic grouping, Arnaud-Vanneau (1980, p. 516) included the three mentioned genera (and others like Sabaudia Charollais & Brönnimann ) and their description into a group of foraminifera exhibiting a test with subdivided chambers (‘tests à structure cloissonaire’) and furthermore into the subgroup with biserial chamber arrangements that might exhibit an initial planispiral stage.