First Record Of Calcareous Green Algae (Dasycladales, Halimedaceae) From The Paleocene Chehel Kaman Formation Of North-Eastern Iran (Kopet-Dagh Basin)
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SCHLAGINTWEIT, FELIX
Lerchenauerstr. 167, 80935 Munich, Germany
felix.schlagintweit@gmx.de
Author
RASHIDI, KOOROSH
2 Department of Geology, Yazd University, 89195 - 741 Yazd, Iran
kooroshrashidi@yazd.ac.ir
Author
MOSAVINIA, ABDOLMAJID
Department of Geology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran, Po Box 19395 - 3697
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Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae
2021
2021-01-18
17
1
51
64
http://dx.doi.org/10.35463/j.apr.2021.01.06
journal article
10.35463/j.apr.2021.01.06
1842-371x
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Cymopolia mayaense
Johnson & Kaska, 1965
Figs. 3
c-d, 8a-e, g-h
*1965
Cymopolia mayaense
n. sp.
– Johnson and Kaska, p. 83-85, pl. 18, figs. 1-4.
2013
Cymopolia mayaense
Johnson and Kaska
– Granier in Granier et al., p. 283,
Fig. 3.1-4
, pl. 4, figs. d-f, pl. 5, figs. a-i, pl. 6, figs. a-c, pl. 7, figs a-f, pl. 8, fig. e (with synonymy).
Fig. 5
Thyrsoporella
/
Trinocladus
, tangential section (
c
),
Uteria
aff.
merienda
(Elliott)
(
b
), oblique longitudinal section from Paleocene carbonates of the Chehel Kaman Formation, northeastern Iran. Thin-sections: Nf 13 (
a
), NF 4 (
b
).
Remarks:
C. mayaense
represents a species showing a rather wide variability of article morphology and range of biometric data. The type-material of the Johnson collection has been recently revised by Granier in
Granier et al. (2013)
. Characteristics of the Iranian specimens are a smooth inner surface, comparably small ovoid sporangia surrounded by 4 to 5 secondary laterals (
Fig. 8
c-e, h). Most specimens are represented by cylindrical segments (length up to 4.0 mm; diameter up to
0.9 mm
). The primary laterals bearing numerous fertile ampullae at the distal end are shorther than the secondaries. In some samples,
C
. cf.
mayaense
shows an assemblage with the calcareous benthic foraminifera
Rahaghia khorassanica
(Rahaghi)
(
Fig. 3c
,
8g
).