A NEW SPECIES OF PRIMITIVE Reticulophragmium (FORAMINIFERA) FROM THE PALEOCENE VIDONO FORMATION OF NORTHEASTERN VENEZUELA

Annales Sodewris Geologorum P%niae (1999). vol. 69: 189-193.

A NEW SPECIES OF PRIMITIVE Reticulophragmium (FORAMINIFERA) FROM THE PALEOCENE VIDONO FORMATION OF NORTHEASTERN VENEZUELA Michael A. KAMINSKI' & Sandra Crespo de CA BRERA I

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Research School a/Geological & Geophysical Sciences, Birbeck College alld UniverSity College London, Gower Street. LOlldon wei E 687: UK; and KLFR, 3 !Jayne Avenue. Hendon NW4 2JL, UK. 2 PDVSA. Laboratorio Geologico EI Challre, Puerto La Cruz. Venezuela Kaminski, M. A. & Crespo de Cabrera, S .. 1999. A new species of primitive. Relicu/opilragmjllm (Foraminifera) from the Paleocene Vidoiio Fomlation of northeast em Venezuela. Ann. SOC. Geol. POIOII., 69: 189- 193. Abstract: The new species Rerjcu/ophragmjllm vidonjoel1sis Kaminski & Crespo de Cabrera is newly described from the subsurface Vidono Fonnation of nonheaslem Venezuela. The foraminiferal assemblage is dated as Zone P3 (mid Paleocene). and rcpresents an outer neritic·upper bathyal biofacies. Reliculophragmillln vidol/ioel/sis n.sp. displays very primitive morphological features. and illustrates the close evolutionary relationship between Ihc carliest Paleocene alveolar genus RCliclilopilragmill1ll and the non-alveolar genus Haplophragmoides. Abstrakt : Z osadow srodkowego paleoccnu (zona 1'3) fonnacji Vidono w p6lnocno-wschodnicj Wenezueli opisano I10wy gatunek Reliclilophragmillm vidoTliocTlsis Kaminski & Crcspo de Cabrera, nale4cy do grupy otwomic aglutynujll.cych. Zesp61 otwomic z nowo opisanym taksoncm rcprczenntie biofacjc z pogranicza slrcfy nerytyczncj i gomcgo batiaru. Gatunck ReticulophragmiulI/ vidonjoel/sis n.sp. charakleryzujll. ccchy stawiaj