Geologia Croatica, Vol. 69 No. 2, 2016.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.4154/GC.2016.17
Cretaciclavulina gusici n. gen., n. sp. (?family Valvulinidae BERTHELIN, 1880), a new larger benthic foraminifer from the lower Campanian of Brač Island, Croatia
Felix Schlagintweit
Blanka Cvetko Tešović
; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Geology
Abstract
The larger benthic foraminifera Cretaciclavulina gusici n. gen., n. sp. is described from the lower Campanian Pučišća Formation of the Island of Brač, Croatia. With its elongate test, trochospiral to uniserial coiling, simple chambers, paraporous wall structure, and areal aperture provided with a cribrate apertural plate, Cretaciclavulina is tentatively placed into the family Valvulinidae BERTHELIN, 1880. Besides Neobalkhania bignoti CHERCHI, RADOIČIĆ & SCHROEDER, 1991, Fleuryana adriatica DE CASTRO, DROBNE & GUŠIĆ, 1994, and Reticulinella fleuryi CVETKO, GUŠIĆ & SCHROEDER, 1997, Cretaciclavulina gusici represents the fourth benthic foraminifera newly described from the Upper Cretaceous shallow-water carbonates of Brač Island.
Keywords
Benthic foraminifera; Wall structure; Valvulinidae; Palaeotextulariidae; Upper Cretaceous; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
162232
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Publication date:
30.6.2016.
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