Paleogene Larger Rotaliid Foraminifera from the Western and Central Neotethys

Part I The rotaliid foraminifera

1 Rotaliid shell architecture and the palaeodiversity of the Lockhartia Sea

1.1 Lamellation theory (Smout 1954; Hansen 1999)

1.2 Elements of rotaliid architecture

1.3 Life strategies: an overview

1.4 Cyclical community maturation

1.5 Diversity in the Lockhartia Sea

2 The system of the Rotaliidae, an overview

2.1 Overview

2.2 Superfamily Rotaliacea Ehrenberg: family Rotaliidae Ehrenberg, 1839

2.3 Identification key to the Paleogene genera of the superfamily Rotaliacea

2.4 Identification key to some genera excluded from the Rotaliacea

2.5 Identification key for some rotaliids with single foramina and lacking umbilical plugs or umbos

2.6 Identification key for some rotaliid shells with multiple areal foramina

2.7 Identification key for some rotaliid shells of the family Victoriellidae

Part II Systematic palaeontology: Family Rotaliidae

3 Subfamily Rotaliinae Ehrenberg, 1839

3.1 Rotorbinella Bandy, 1944

3.2 Pyrenorotalia Boix et al., 2009

3.3 Rotospirella n. gen.

3.4 Rotalia Lamarck, 1804

3.5 Medocia Parvati, 1971

4 New subfamily Redmondininae

4.1 Redmondina Hasson, 1985

4.2 Slovenites n. gen.

4.3 Rotaliconus Hottinger, 2007

4.4 Pachyrotalia n. gen.

5 New subfamily Lockhartiinae

5.1 Rotalispira n. gen.

5.2 Lockhartia Davies, 1932

5.3 Dictyoconoides Nuttall, 1925

5.4 Sakesaria Davies, 1937

5.4.1 Additional species or varieties of Sakesaria

6 New subfamily Kathininae

6.1 Kathina Smout, 1954

6.2 Dictyokathina Smout, 1954

6.3 Plumokathina n. gen.

7 New subfamily Daviesininae

7.1 Daviesina Smout, 1954

8 Some taxa that are or remain excluded from the family Rotallidae

8.1 Neorotalia Bérmundez, 1952

8.2 Paralockhartia n. gen.

8.3 New subfamily Laffitteininae

8.3.1 Laffitteina Marie, 1946

8.3.2 Cuvillierina Debourle, 1955

8.3.3 Smoutina Drooger, 1960

8.3.4 Storrsella Drooger, 1960

9 Rotaliid taxa with uncertain affinities

9.1 Rotaliid taxa without umbilical fills

9.1.1 Thalmannita Bérmundez, 1952

9.1.2 Civrieuxia Bérmundez, 1978

9.2 Rotaliid taxa with multiple foramina

9.2.1 Scarificatina Moorkens, 1982

9.2.2 Cincoriola Haque, 1958

9.2.3 Rahaghia n. gen.

9.3 Some rotaliids of the family Victoriellidae Chapman and Crespin, 1930

9.3.1 Gyroidinella Le Calvez, 1949