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- Title
Somalina praestefaninii n. sp., a New Species of Large Foraminifera from the Dammam Formation (Lutetian) of Gebel Hafit, United Arab Emirates.
- Authors
Boukhary, Mohamed; Decrouez, Danielle; El Safori, Yasser A.
- Abstract
The nodular limestones exposed at the basal part of the Gebel Hafit (United Arab Emirates) represent a truncation surface, between the Rus and the Middle Eocene Dammam Formation (Mibazara Member). Somalina praestefaninii n. sp. is a new large foraminiferal species separated from the Mibazara member. It is believed that Somalina praestefaninii n. sp. is the ancestral form of Somalina stefaninii SILVESTRI as it is smaller and bas a more simple protoconch. Here, it is believed that the taxon Somalina (Lutetian) could possibly be derived from Opertorbitolites NUTTALL 1925 (the taxon characteristics for the Ypresian).
- Subjects
UNITED Arab Emirates; FORAMINIFERA; LUTETIA; TAXONOMY; EOCENE stratigraphic geology
- Publication
Geologia Croatica, 2006, Vol 59, Issue 2, p99
- ISSN
1330-030X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4154/gc.2006.07