Pfenderinidae Smout and Sugden, 1962

Bucur, Ioan I. & Schlagintweit, Felix, 2018, Moulladella Jourdanensis (Foury & Moullade, 1966) N. Gen., N. Comb.: Valanginian-Early Late Barremian Larger Benthic Foraminifera From The Northern Neotethyan Margin, Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 14 (2), pp. 45-59 : 49

Family Pfenderinidae Smout and Sugden, 1962

Subfamily Paleopfenderininae Septfontaine, 1988 Remarks: The subfamily Paleopfenderininae was introduced by Septfontaine (1988, p. 245) for pfenderinids with trochospiral test, adult chambers may be uncoiled, wall with pseudo-keriotheca, endoskeletal pillars with calcitic-infilling in inter-pillars cavities giving the appearance of a columella (= secondarily infilled alveolar shell material, Loeblich and Tappan, 1988, p. 151). The Paleopfenderininae include seven genera all of Middle Jurassic age ( Septfontaine, 1988; Kaminski 2014). The lower Cretaceous Moulladella n. gen., the youngest representative of the subfamily, can be considered an advanced paleopfenderinid where the curved septa of the spiral stage give rise to the broad and distally broadening radial partitions (exoskeletal beams) of the marginal zone.