KAHLERININAE Leven, 1963

Vachard, Daniel & Le Coze, Francois, 2024, Paleozoic Foraminifera: Current State Of The Classification And Perspectives, Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 20 (2), pp. 97-130 : 116

Subfamily KAHLERININAE Leven, 1963

Test nautiloid, highly compressed along the axis, to subspherical, in the inner whorls sometimes with a weak sharpening of the periphery and with an unstable position of the coiling axis; septal sutures poorly marked; number of whorls up to 5-7; septa thick, flat or slightly convex, thickened at ends; number of septa up to 8-11 in the last whorls; wall thick, two-layered, with simple fine porosity, inconsistently expressed; the aperture is single, sometimes foramina are present at the base of the septa in the outer whorls; chomata are weakly expressed; parachomata in external whorls small and inconstant.

Remark: Recently published Kahlerinella Okuyucu, 2022 is considered herein as a subjective junior synonym of Kahlerina Kochansky-Devidé & Ramovš, 1955 . We cannot see neither morphological nor microstructural differences with Kahlerina .

Composition: Kahlerina Kochansky-Devidé & Ramovš, 1955 .