61Velić: Stratigraphy and Palaeobiogeography of Mesozoic Benthic Foraminifera...

PLATES

Plates were organized according to biostratigraphic criteria: only taxa which represent the basis for biostratigraphic 
zonation are presented. These are the most important index species after which the biozones were named. The 
majority of taxa cited in this paper will not be presented in plates, although some of them are also index species. 
These forms will be published in another paper, together with some previously undocumented or unknown species 
from the Karst Dinarides.

Most of the presented forms were photographed from my collection archived in the Croatian Geological Survey. 
The only exceptions are, as already mentioned, photomicrographs of Murciella cuvillieri (collection of Blanka 
CVETKO TEŠOVIĆ, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Natural Sciences) and photomicrographs of microspheric 
Rhapydionina liburnica and Fleuryana adriatica provided by Katica DROBNE (Palaeontological institute I. 
Rakovac of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia).

Vercorsella camposaurii (SARTONI & CRESCENTI, 1962)
Vercorsella laurentii (SARTONI & CRESCENTI, 1962)
Vercorsella scarsellai (DE CASTRO, 1963)
Vercorsella tenuis (VELIĆ & GUŠIĆ, 1973)
Vercorsella wintereri ARNAUD-VANNEAU & SLITER, 1995
Vidalina hispanica SCHLUMBERGER, 1900
Vidalina radoicicae CHERCHI & SCHROEDER, 1985
Voloshinoides murgensis LUPERTO SINNI & MASSE, 1993

2. Calcareous algae 

Campbelliella striata (CAROZZI, 1954)
Clypeina besici PANTIĆ, 1965
Clypeina jurassica FAVRE, 1927 
Palaeodasycladus mediterraneus (PIA, 1920)
Pseudoclypeina cirici RADOIČIĆ, 1970
Salpingoporella annulata CAROZZI, 1953
Salpingoporella dinarica RADOIČIĆ, 1959
Salpingoporella turgida (RADOIČIĆ, 1964)
Selliporella donzellii SARTONI & CRESCENTI, 1962



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PLATE I

1, 3–4  Lamelliconus procerus (LIEBUS), Carnian; 1, 3: Karlovac area, 4: Komiža, island of Vis, Croatia. 

2  Lamelliconus procerus and Aulotortus friedli (KRISTAN-TOLLMANN); Karlovac area, Croatia.

5  Carnian biofacies with Lamelliconus procerus and Aulotortus friedli; Karlovac area, Croatia.

6–8  Triasina hantkeni MAJZON, Rhaetian; South Velebit Mt., Croatia.

9–10  Rhaetian biofacies with Triasina hantkeni and Aulotortus sinuosus WEYNSCHENK; South Velebit Mt., 
Croatia.

Scale bars – 1–4, 6–8: 0.2 mm; 5, 9–10: 0.5 mm.



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PLATE II

1–4  Mesoendothyra sp., Sinemurian–Early Pliensbachian; 1–2, 4: Central Velebit Mt., 3: Gornje Jelenje, 
Croatia.

5–8  Lituosepta recoarensis CATI, Late Sinemurian–Early Pliensbachian; 5–6: Central Velebit Mt., 7–8: Gor-
nje Jelenje, Croatia.

9–11  Orbitopsella primaeva (HENSON), Late Sinemurian–Early Pliensbachian; megalosphaeric forms, 9–10: 
South Velebit Mt., 11: North Velebit Mt. 

Scale bars – 0.2 mm.



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PLATE III

1–4  Orbitopsella primaeva (HENSON), Late Sinemurian–Early Pliensbachian; 1 – megalosphaeric and 
microsphaerc forms, 2–4 – microsphaeric forms; 1, 3–4: North Velebit Mt., 2: Central Velebit Mt., 
Croatia.

5–6  Orbitopsella praecursor (GÜMBEL), Pliensbachian; megalosphaeric forms, 5: Central Velebit Mt., 6: 
Plitvice, Croatia. 

Scale bars – 0.2 mm.



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PLATE IV

1–4  Orbitopsella praecursor (GÜMBEL), Pliensbachian; 1 – megalosphaeric form, 2–4 – microsphaeric 
forms; 1: Plitvice, 2–4: Central Velebit Mt., Croatia.

Scale bars – 1: 0.2 mm, 2–3: 2 mm, 4: 3 mm.



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PLATE V

1–4  Pseudocyclammina liassica HOTTINGER, Late Pliensbachian, Velika Kapela Mt., Croatia.

5–8  Mesoendothyra croatica GUŠIĆ, Aalenian–Bajocian; 5 – South Velebit Mt., 6–7 – Biokovo Mt.,  
8 – Dubrovnik area, Croatia.

9–12  Gutnicella cayeuxi (LUCAS), Aalenian–Early Bajocian; 9–10 – megalosphaeric forms, 11–12 – micro-
sphaeric forms: Dubrovnik area, Croatia.

Scale bars – 1–11: 0.2 mm, 12: 0.5 mm.



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PLATE VI

1–6  Timidonella sarda BASSOULLET, CHABRIER & FOURCADE, Aalenian–Early Bajocian; 1–5 – mega-
losphaeric forms, 6 – microsphaeric form; 1: Dubrovnik area, 2–5: Biokovo Mt., Croatia, 6: Suha krajina, 
Slovenia.

Scale bars – 0.2 mm.



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PLATE VII

1–6  Pseudodictyopsella jurassica SEPTFONTAINE & DE MATOS, Early Bajocian, Biokovo Mt., Croatia.

7–12  Marzoella ficcarellii CHIOCCHINI & MANCINELLI, Early Bajocian, Biokovo Mt., Croatia.

13–16  Paravalvulina complicata SEPTFONTAINE, Late Bajocian, Biokovo Mt., Croatia.

Scale bars – 0.2 mm.



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PLATE VIII

1–5  Paleopfenderina salernitana (SARTONI & CRESCENTI), Bathonian; 1–3, 5 – microsphaeric forms,  
4–5 – megalosphaeric forms; 1: South Velebit Mt., 2: North Velebit Mt., 3–5: Biokovo Mt., Croatia

6–9  Satorina apuliensis FUORCADE & CHOROWICZ, Late Bathonian, 6–7, 9: Western Istria, 8: South 
Velebit Mt., Croatia.

10–12  Kurnubia jurassica (HENSON), Late Callovian–Oxfordian; 10, 12: Western Istria, 11: South Velebit Mt., 
Croatia. 

Scale bars – 0.2 mm.



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PLATE IX

1–2  Kurnubia jurassica (HENSON), Late Callovian–Oxfordian; 1: South Velebit Mt., 2: Gornje Jelenje, 
Croatia.

3–5  Kurnubia palastiniensis HENSON, Oxfordian–Kimmeridgian; 3–4: Velika Kapela Mt., 5: Biokovo Mt., 
Croatia.

6–8  Kurnubia wellingsi (HENSON), Late Oxfordian–Kimmeridgian; 6: South Velebit Mt., 7–8: Velika Kapela 
Mt., Croatia.

9–11  Conicokurnubia orbitoliniformis SEPTFONTAINE, Kimmeridgian; 9: South Velebit Mt., 10–11: Velika 
Kapela Mt., Croatia.

Scale bars – 1–8, 10–11: 0.2 mm, 9: 0.5 mm.



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PLATE X

1–7  Alveosepta jaccardi (SCHRODT), Kimmeridgian, Velika Kapela Mt., Croatia. 

8–13  Parurgonina caelinensis CUVILLIER, FOURY & PIGNATTI-MORANO, Late Kimmeridgian–Early 
Tithonian; 8: Velika Kapela Mt., 9–10: Dubrovnik area, 11–13: Gornje Jelenje, Croatia.

Scale bars – 1–9, 11–13: 0.2 mm, 10: 0.5 mm.



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PLATE XI

1–5  Protopeneroplis ultragranulata (GORBATCHIK); 1–2, 4–5: Tithonian, Kupres, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 
3: Berriasian, Dubrovnik area, Croatia. 

6–11  Vercorsella camposaurii (SARTONI & CRESCENTI), Valanginian, Western Istria, Croatia.

Scale bars – 0.2 mm.



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PLATE XII

1–4  Campanellula capuensis DE CASTRO, latest Hauterivian–earliest Barremian, Western Istria, Croatia.

5–9  Rectodictyoconus giganteus SCHROEDER, Late Barremian; 5–8: Banja Luka area, Bosnia and  
Herzegovina, 9: Jajce area, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

10–11  Palorbitolina lenticularis (BLUMENBACH), Late Barremian; 1: Ogulin area, Croatia, 2: Jajce area,  
Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Scale bars – 1, 4–7, 9–11: 0.2 mm, 2–3: 0.1 mm, 8: 0.5 mm.



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PLATE XIII

1  Palorbitolina lenticularis (BLUMENBACH), Late Barremian, Dinara Mt., Croatia. 

2–6  Palorbitolina lenticularis (BLUMENBACH), Early Aptian; 2, 4–5: Ogulin area, 3, 6: South Velebit Mt., 
Croatia.

7–10  Praeorbitolina cormyi SCHROEDER, Early Aptian, Ogulin area, Croatia.

11  Transitional form between Praeorbitolina cormyi SCHROEDER and Praeorbitolina wienandsi 
SCHROEDER, Early Aptian, Ogulin area, Croatia.

12  Praeorbitolina wienandsi SCHROEDER, Early Aptian, Ogulin area, Croatia.

Scale bars – 1–4, 6–12: 0.2 mm, 5: 0.1 mm.