The Lower Cretaceous Tirgan Formation In The Gelian Section (Kopet Dagh, North Iran): Microfacies, Microfossils, And Their Biostratigraphic Significance Author Bucur, Ioan I. Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Geology and Center for Integrated Geological Studies, M. Kogălniceanu str., 1, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. * Corresponding author: ioan. bucur @ ubbcluj. ro; cristianvictormircescu @ hotmail. com ioan.bucur@ubbcluj.ro Author Yarahmadzahi, Hamed Department of Geology, Earth Sciences Research Center, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, I. R. Iran, hamed. yarahmadzahi @ iauzah. ac. ir hamed.yarahmadzahi@iauzah.ac.ir Author Mircescu, Cristian V. Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Geology and Center for Integrated Geological Studies, M. Kogălniceanu str., 1, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. * Corresponding author: ioan. bucur @ ubbcluj. ro; cristianvictormircescu @ hotmail. com ioan.bucur@ubbcluj.ro text Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 2019 2019-02-15 15 1 13 33 http://dx.doi.org/10.35463/j.apr.2019.01.02 journal article 10.35463/j.apr.2019.01.02 1842-371x 10520548 Torremiroella hispanica Brun & Canerot ( Fig. 14 e-h) Schlagintweit et al. (2013a) identified this foraminifer in central Iran ; its presence in the Kopet Dagh basin is documented for the first time in this study, a report that does not influence its paleogeographical significance. Its cooccurrence with Balkhania balkhanica and Kopetdagaria sphaerica is highly expected (see Schlagintweit et al., 2013a ). From a paleogeographic perspective, the Kopet Dagh basin is integrated in the Carpathian-Cimmerian province (Taherpour Khalil Abad et al., 2013 ).