MILIOLOIDEA

 

There are five significant superfamilies of larger foraminifera within the Milioloidea, the:

·         Austrotrillinidae

·         Hauerinidae

·         Nautiloculinidae

·         Rivieroinidae

·         Spiroloculinidae

 

Family Nautiloculinidae Loeblich and Tappan, 1985

 

  • Nautiloculina. Jurassic (Oxfordian) to Early Cretaceous.

 

 

 

 

 

A) Nautiloculina circularis (Said and Barakat), B) Syriana khouri Fourcade et al., figured by Noujaim Clark and BouDagher-Fadel (2004) from the Callovian of Lebanon.

 

 

 

 

Nautiloculina oolithca (Mohler), Bajocian/Bathonian, Saudi Arabia

 

 

 

Nautiloculina cretacea Arnaud-Vanneau and Peybernés, types figures from Arnaud-Vanneau and Peybernés (1978), from France, Berriasian-Aptian

 

 

Family Austrotrillinidae Loeblich and Tappan, 1986

 

  • Austrotrillina Parr, 1942. Middle Oligocene to Middle Miocene (Langhian).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Austrotrillina asmariensis Adams, Oligocene, Kirkuk, Iraq

 

 

 

Austrotrillina paucialveolata Grimsdale, syntype, Oligocene, Kirkuk, Iraq

 

Family Hauerinidae Schwager, 1876

 

  • Heterillina Munier-Chalmas, 1905. Middle Eocene to Oligocene.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heterillina hensoni Grimsdale, syntype, Kirkuk, Iraq

 

  • Kayseriella Sirel, 1999. Early Paleocene (Danian).

 

Family Rivieroinidae Saidova, 1981

 

  • Pseudohauerina Ponder, 1972. Oligocene to Holocene.
  • Riveroina Bermúdez, 1939. Holocene
  • Pseudohauerinella McCulloch, 1981. Holocene.

 

Family Spiroloculinidae Wiesner 1920

 

  • Elazigella Sire1, 1999. Late Paleocene (Thanetian).