 Hornibrook et al. 1989, Fig. 16.5 (Topotype): 1.16 mm |
Reference: Hornibrook, Brazier & Strong 1989, p.96, Fig. 16:5 (Topotype).
Synonymy: 1864, Rosalina maorica, Novara-Exped. geol. 1(2): 282, pl. 24, fig. 32a-c;
1971, Melonis maorica, Hornibrook, N.Z. Geol. Surv. paleont. bull. 43: 49, 50, pl. 11, fig. 184, 185 (Nonion, Astrononion).
Description: Fairly large, coarsely perforate, planispiral, sutures limbate with plate-like extensions into umbilicus, 13-19 chambers in last whorl; aperture a low basal rimmed slit; moderately inflated in cross section with a strongly rounded periphery.
Distribution: Bortonian to Kapitean in its typical form.
Comment: A smaller form usually referred to N. maorica is typical of the Dannevirke Series (Waipawan to Porangan). Other rather similar forms are M. pacimaoricum Srinivasan (Eocene and Oligocene) and M. simplex (Karrer) (Miocene).
Cite this publication as: "Strong CP, Raine JI, Terezow M. 2018. Key
species of New Zealand fossil foraminifera: descriptions from "Manual of New
Zealand Permian to Pleistocene Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy" by Hornibrook,
Brazier and Strong, 1989. Lower Hutt (NZ): GNS Science. (GNS Science
miscellaneous series; 123)."
ISSN 1172-2886, ISBN 978-1-98-853088-8,
DOI 10.21420/G2M63W.
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