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

• Main Authors: Kaminski, M.A., Setoyama, E., Tyszka, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Foraminifera; Late Cretaceous; new genus; new species; biometrics; Barents Sea; Norwegian Sea; Kviting
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/18875/1/18875.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/18875/

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...