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Nonion

Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Nonionidae

Taxonomy

Nonion was named by de Montfort (1808) [Sepkoski's age data: K Camp R]. It is extant.

It was assigned to Ramulininae by Cushman (1927); to Foraminiferida by Sepkoski (2002); to Nonioninae by Loeblich and Tappan (1988), Margerel (2012); and to Nonionidae by Dorreen (1948), Asano (1949), Bertels (1964), Gibson (1983), Wienrich (1997), Al Menoufy and Shreif (2021).

Species

N. calvertensis, N. danvillensis, N. iota, N. labradoricum, N. maoricum, N. rolshauseni, N. scaphum, N. sloani, N. stavensis, N. tallahattensis, N. troostae

Species lacking formal opinion data

N. advenum, N. affinae, N. affine, N. affine, N. alabamense, N. asterizans, N. baripadaensis, N. beadnelli, N. biporus, N. bogdanovizi, N. bogdanowichi, N. boueanum, N. commune, N. commune, N. costiferum, N. decoratum, N. depressulum, N. depressulum, N. durhami, N. elongatum, N. germanicum, N. germanicus, N. glabrellum, N. granosum, N. granosum, N. granosus, N. grateloupi, N. halkyardi, N. havanense, N. havanense, N. havanensis, N. incisum, N. incisum, N. japonicum, N. kankouensis, N. kingi, N. kooteni, N. laeve, N. lamarcki, N. loveanum, N. mauricensis, N. microumbilicatus, N. nagasawaensis, N. perfossum, N. pizarrense, N. pizarrensis, N. planatum, N. plnatum, N. pompilioides, N. preadvenum, N. robusta, N. sloanii, N. soldanii, N. subgranosum, N. tassonyi, N. umbilicatulus, N. umbilicatum, N. victoriense, N. washingtonensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1808	Nonion de Montfort
1927	Nonion Cushman p. 49
1948	Nonion Dorreen p. 289
1949	Nonion Asano p. 476
1964	Nonion Bertels p. 163
1983	Nonion Gibson p. 368
1988	Nonion Loeblich and Tappan
1997	Nonion Wienrich p. 62
2002	Nonion Sepkoski
2012	Nonion Margerel
2021	Nonion Al Menoufy and Shreif p. 20

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Chromista	Cavalier-Smith 1981
subkingdom	Rhizaria	()
phylum	Foraminifera	(Eichwald 1830)
class	Globothalamea

Rank	Name	Author
order	Rotaliida	Delage and Herouard 1896
superfamily	Nonionacea	Schultze 1854
family	Nonionidae
genus	Nonion

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Nonion de Montfort 1808

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†Nonion calvertensis Gibson 1983

†Nonion danvillensis Howe and Wallace 1932

†Nonion iota Finlay 1940

Nonion labradoricum Dawson 1860

Nonion maoricum Stache 1864

†Nonion rolshauseni Bandy 1949

†Nonion scaphum Fichtel and Moll 1938

Nonion sloani d'Orbigny 1839

†Nonion stavensis Bandy 1949

†Nonion tallahattensis Bandy 1949

†Nonion troostae Visser 1950

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Entire body:

yesg

Adult length:

0.1 to < 1.0g

Adult width:

0.1 to < 1.0g

Locomotion:

stationaryo

Life habit:

semi-infaunalo

Diet:

omnivoreo

Comments:

BODY SIZE: Data from Dorreen (1948), based on specimens of Nonion maoricum.g

Created:

2009-09-02 20:13:44

Modified:

2009-09-02 22:14:53

Source: g = genus, o = order

References: Dorreen 1948, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Turonian to the top of the Holocene or 93.90000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 89.8 Ma

Collections (466 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Oldest occurrences
Early/Lower Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Egypt	N. robusta (141574)
Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Egypt	N. beadnelli (140954)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Netherlands	Nonionella troostae (138910)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Netherlands (Limburg)	Nonionella troostae (164977 164978 164979 164980 164994 164995 164997 164998 164999 165000 165001 165002 165003 165004 165005 165040)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Netherlands	Nonionella troostae (164970 164971 164972 164973 164974 164975 164976 164981 164983 164984 164987 164988 164989 165039 165069 165081)
Maastrichtian - Danian	72.2 - 61.66	Argentina (Rio Negro)	N. sp. (236480)
Late/Upper Paleocene	59.24 - 56.0	Suriname	N. grateloupi (209479) N. kooteni (209475)
Late/Upper Paleocene	59.24 - 56.0	French Guiana	N. spp. (209434 209436 209439 209444)
Thanetian	59.24 - 56.0	Spain	N. havanense (154089) N. havanense, N. durhami (154088)
Early/Lower Eocene	56.0 - 48.07	India (Andhra Pradesh)	N. kingi (46388)
Ypresian	56.0 - 48.07	North Pacific	N. havanensis (270732)
Ypresian	56.0 - 48.07	North Atlantic	N. spp. (262950)
Ypresian	56.0 - 48.07	Spain	N. havanense (154090)
Ypresian	56.0 - 48.07	South Africa	N. elongatum (77526)
Ypresian - Lutetian	56.0 - 41.03	North Atlantic	N. spp. (263530 263531)
Early/Lower Eocene - Middle Eocene	56.0 - 37.71	Trinidad and Tobago	N. sp. (140160)
Eocene	56.0 - 33.9	Nigeria (Imo)	N. sp. (42651 42654 42655)
Eocene	56.0 - 33.9	Nigeria	N. sp. (46255 46260)
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	North Atlantic	N. spp. (264510 264515 264516 264517 266184 266186 266190 266193 266194 266196 266197)
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	Libya	N. sp. (42138 49943)