Belongs within: Nodosariina.
Dentalina is a Permian to Recent genus of foraminiferans with an elongate, arcuate test (Loeblich & Tappan 1964).
Characters (Loeblich & Tappan 1964): Test elongate, arcuate, uniserial; sutures commonly oblique; aperture radiate, terminal, may be eccentric or nearly central.
Dentalina Risso 1826 [incl. Dentalinella Wedekind 1937, Enantiodentalina Marie 1941, Svenia Brotzen 1937; Dentalinidae]LT64
|--*D. cuvieri (d’Orbigny 1826) [=Nodosaria (Dentaline) cuvieri]LT64
|--D. aciculaJP64
|--D. basiplanataM08
|--D. communis (d’Orbigny 1826) [=Nodosaria (Dentaline) communis, *Enantiodentalina communis]LT64
|--‘*Dentalinella’ cuneata Wedekind 1937LT64
|--D. deflexaBL79
|--D. emaciata Reuss 1851A68
|--D. expansaBL79
|--D. godjeni Quilty 1969 [=Nodosaria roemeri var. semicostata Goddard & Jensen 1907]Q72
|--D. gracilisM08
|--‘Nodosaria laevigata’ Nilsson 1826 non d’Orbigny 1826 [=*Svenia laevigata]LT64
|--D. mutsui Hada 1931A68
|--D. obliqua [=Nodosaria (Dentalina) obliqua]C40
|--D. pauperata d’Orbigny 1846H03
|--D. roemeriC40
|--D. solutaB49
|--D. trujilloi Loeblich & Tappan 1964 [=D. intermedia Reuss 1860 non Cornuel 1848]LT64
`--D. vertebralis (Bartsch 1791)A68
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[A68] Albani, A. D. 1968. Recent Foraminiferida of the central coast of New South Wales. AMSA Handbook 1: 1–37.
[BL79] Basov, V. A., B. G. Lopatin, I. S. Gramberg, A. I. Danjushevskaya, V. Ya. Kaban’kov, V. M. Lazurkin & D. K. Patrunov. 1979. Lower Cretaceous lithostratigraphy near Galicia Bank. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 47: 683–717.
[B49] Battey, M. H. 1949. The geology of the Tuakau-Mercer area, Auckland. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 77 (3): 429–455.
[C40] Cushman, J. A. 1940. Foraminifera: Their classification and economic use 3rd ed. Harvard University Press: Cambridge (Massachusetts).
[H03] Hanagata, S. 2003. Miocene–Pliocene Foraminifera from the Niigata oil-fields region, northeastern Japan. Micropaleontology 49 (4): 293–340.
[JP64] Jones, T. R., & W. K. Parker. 1864. Notes on some fossil and Recent Foraminifera, collected in Jamaica by the late Lucas Barrett, F.G.S. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 33 (Notices and Abstracts): 80.
[LT64] Loeblich, A. R., Jr & H. Tappan. 1964. Sarcodina: chiefly “thecamoebians” and Foraminiferida. In Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt C. Protista 2 vol. 2. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press.
[M08] McMillan, I. K. 2008. Reappraisal of foraminiferal assemblages of the Santonian–Campanian Mzamba Formation type section, and their correlation with the stratigraphic succession of the KwaZulu Basin. African Natural History 4: 25–34.
[Q72] Quilty, P. G. 1972. The biostratigraphy of the Tasmanian marine Tertiary. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 106: 25–44.