Plectoeratidus subarcticus, n.gen., n.sp., a new agglutinated foraminifer from the Upper Cretaceous of the western Barents Sea

• Main Authors: Kaminski, Michael A., Setoyama, Eiichi, Tyszka, Jarosław
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 2014
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Norwegian Sea
• Online Access: https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/asgp/article/view/10464

We describe the new foraminiferal genus and species Plectoeratidus subarcticus n.gen. n.sp., from the Upper Cretaceous deep-water deposits of the Kviting and Kveite formations in the western Barents Sea. The genus is characterised by its planispiral-biserial-uniserial chamber arrangement, terminal a...