Fleuryana adriatica, Schlagintweit & Rashidi, 2016

Schlagintweit, Felix & Rashidi, Koorosh, 2016, Some New And Poorly Known Benthic Foraminifera From Late Maatrichtian Shallow-Water Carbonates Of The Zagros Zone, Sw Iran, Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 12 (1), pp. 53-70 : 57

Genus Fleuryana De Castro, Drobne & Gušić, 1994 Fleuryana adriatica De Castro, Drobne & Gušić, 1994 Fig. 10

*1994 Fleuryana adriatica n. gen., n. sp. – De Castro et al., p. 133, pls. 1–4, figs. 3-5, 7–8.

1998 Fleuryana adriatica De Castro, Drobne & Gušić – Caffau et al., fig. 5.2–3.

Remarks: In the original description, information on the suprageneric taxonomy of Fleuryana was not provided. In the two classifications of agglutinated taxa provided by Kaminski (2004, 2014), the genus Fleuryana is not included. Because of its morphology as well as the finely perforate wall structure, De Castro et al. (1994) discuss in detail similarities and differences to Montcharmontia De Castro, a genus included in the family Charentiidae ( Loeblich and Tappan, 1987; Kaminski, 2014). We propose to assign Fleuryana to this family.

In the Mandegan section, Fleuryana adriatica occurs in the upper part of unit 1 persisting into the upper part of unit 2. Originally described from the uppermost Maastrichtian, its first appearance is somewhere in the middle part of the Campanian ( Fleury, 2014, fig. 3). This enlarged stratigraphic range should be taken into consideration as in some papers F. adriatica is erroneously considered as a late Maastrichtian marker taxon (e.g., Mikuž et al., 2012). The occurrence of F. adriatica in the Tarbur Formation is the first record of this taxon in Iran. According to our knowledge it is the easternmost record so far.

Figures

Fig. 10 Fleuryana adriatica De Castro, Drobne & Gušić, Late Maastrichtian Tarbur Formation of Mandegan section, Zagros Zone, SW Iran. a, f Equatorial sections. b–c Oblique sections. d Broken oblique section. e Axial section. Thin-sections: Rt 87 (a), SNSB-BSPG 2016 III-7 (b–c), Rt 82 (d), Rt 68 (e), Rt 70 (f).