Agglutinated Conical Foraminifera (Orbitolinidae, Coskinolinidae) From The Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Of Greece, With Description Of Paracoskinolina Klokovaensis N. Sp.
Author
SCHLAGINTWEIT, FELIX
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Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae
2021
2021-05-17
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http://dx.doi.org/10.35463/j.apr.2021.02.06
journal article
10.35463/j.apr.2021.02.06
1842-371x
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Subfamily
Dictyoconinae
Schubert, 1912
Remarks:
Schubert (1912
, p. 207) introduced the name
Dictyoconinae
for a “group” (Gruppe) of agglutinated foraminifers comprising the five genera:
Lituonella
Fig. 2
Upper Cretaceous successions of Klokova Mountain, SW Greece (see
Fleury, 1970
, fig. 1, for details) with the distribution of some benthic foraminifers (A-B:
Senalveolina aubouini
Fleury
, sample GKL 43; C-D
Accordiella conica
Farinacci
, sample GKL 43x, without scale). Note: the lower/middle Campanian boundary is approximately placed at the LAD of
K. tergestina
(
Frijia et al., 2015
, fig. 15). For microfacies of sample GKL 39 see Figure 3.
Schlumberger in
Schlumberger and Douvillé, 1905
,
Coskinolina
Stache, 1875
,
Chapmania
Silvestri, 1904
, the eponymous
Dictyoconus
Blanckenhorn, 1900
, and
Lituola
Lamarck, 1804
, and suggested that this “row” of taxa represented a stratigraphic succession. With reservation,
Schubert (1912)
added
Conulites
Carter, 1861
and
Conulina
d’Orbigny, 1831
. Without going into details about the taxonomic status of these genera, only
Dictyoconus
is left as a member of this “group”. Others are partly junior synonyms of other genera (e.g.
Lituonella
and
Coskinolina
), and belong to other families and orders (e.g.
Chapmanina
). Obviously, the work of
Schubert (1912)
, written in German, was overlooked by
Moullade (1965)
when he established the new subfamily
Dictyconinae
. Shortly afterwards, the priority of the name introduced by
Schubert (1912)
was recognized by
Moullade (1966
, p. 35). Although both,
Schubert (1912)
and
Moullade (1965)
are included in the reference list of
Loeblich and Tappan (1987)
, confusingly, they choose to retain the name
Dictyoconinae
Moullade, 1965
. While some workers correctly used Schubert as author of the subfamily (e.g.
Arnaud-Vanneau, 1976
;
Decrouez and Moullade, 1974
), many have not questioned
Loeblich and Tappan (1987)
and follow their incorrect taxonomy (e.g. Mancinelli and Chiocchini, 2006; Vecchio and Hottinger, 2007; Clavel in
Granier et al., 2013
;
Kaminski, 2014
; Vicedo et al., 2014;
Schlagintweit et al., 2016
;
Serra-Kiel et al., 2016
; Villalonga et al., 2019).