Bakalovaella elitzae (Bakalova)

Bucur, Ioan I., Yarahmadzahi, Hamed & Mircescu, Cristian V., 2019, The Lower Cretaceous Tirgan Formation In The Gelian Section (Kopet Dagh, North Iran): Microfacies, Microfossils, And Their Biostratigraphic Significance, Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 15 (1), pp. 13-33 : 28

Bakalovaella elitzae (Bakalova) ( Fig. 8 a-d).

Initially described by Bakalova (1971) as Cylindroporella elitzae , this dasycladalean alga was subsequently attributed to the genus Montiella by Radoićič (1980). Bucur (1993) transferred it to the new genus Bakalovaella by highlighting some differences between the Cenozoic species of Montiella ( M. munieri and M. macropora ) and the Lower Cretaceous alga originally assigned to the genus Cylindroporella . However, numerous paleoalgologists avoided its attribution to the genus Bakalovaella and preferred to assign it to Montiella . Subsequently, some authors (Taherpour Khalil Abad et al., 2010; Bucur, 2011) questioned once more the attribution of the species elitzae to the genus Montiella , and recently Granier & Bucur (2019) reinstated the genus Bakalovaella based on the species Bakalovaella deloffrei Granier & Bucur , and revalidated the combination Bakalovaella elitzae ( Bucur, 1993) .

Figures

Fig. 8 Calcareous algae from the Tirgan Formation in the Gelian section. a-d Bakalovaella elitzae (Bakalova). a, b, longitudinal-oblique sections, sample G35; c, oblique section, sample G15; d, transverse-oblique section, sample G15. e-h Neomeris cf. cretacea Steinmann; e, oblique-tangential section, sample G35; f, g, oblique sections; h, detail of g showing the reproductive structures morphology; f sample G49; g, h, sample G34. i, j Neomeris sp. Oblique section; j – detail of i; sample G33. k-m Fragments of Neomeris ssp.; k, m, sample G16a; l, sample G34. Scale b is 0.25 mm.