Abstract

Volume 42, number 2/1991, pages 111-116

NEW UPPER CRETACEOUS CYST Pithonella siniformis n. sp. (Calciodinellaceae) FROM EASTERN ALGERIA

JAN REHANEK¹, MILAN MISIK²

¹Moravian Petroleum Mines, Sadova 4, 695 30 Hodonin, Czecho-Slovakia
²Department of Geology and Paleontology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynska dolina, pavilion G, 842 15 Bratislava, Czecho-Slovakia

Abstract: Thin section study of Upper Turonian to Senonian biomicrites, bio-intramicrites and intra-biomicrorudites of the Penitell nappe in eastern Algeria has allowed to describe a new species of Dinoflagellata calcareous cyst with a two-layer, structurally inhomogeneous wall. In the submitted work the new cyst, assigned into the subfamily Pithonelloideae KEUPP, 1987, has been denominated Pithonella siniformis n. sp.

Keywords: Protozoa, Pithonella, Cretaceous, Algeria

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