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Rectoprotomarssonella n. gen., a new agglutinated foraminiferal genus from the Upper Cretaceous of the Carpathian Flysch

¹ Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, U.K. email: m.kaminski{at}ucl.ac.uk; ceteanc{at}yahoo.com
² Czech Geological Survey, Leitnerova St. 22, 658 69 Brno, Czech Republic email: bubik{at}cgu.cz
³ Department of Geology, Babe-Bolyai University, M. Kogalniceanu 1, 400084, Cluj Napoca, Romania

The new agglutinated foraminiferal genus Rectoprotomarssonella n. gen. is characterized by its high trochospiral coiling with multiserial to uniserial chamber arrangement and solid, noncanaliculate wall with calcareous cement. This taxon shows close relationship to the Cretaceous genus Protomarssonella Desai and Banner, from which it differs in possessing a uniserial part. The type species is a stratigraphic indicator in Campanian to Maastrichtian deep-water sediments in the Western Tethys and North Atlantic.