Schlagintweit, F.; Studeny, M.; Sanders, D. (2016). Clypeorbis? ultima n. sp. from the uppermost Maastrichtian of Austria: The youngest representative of the Clypeorbinae Sigal, 1952 (calcareous benthic foraminifera)?. Cretaceous Research. 66: 163-170.

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10.1016/j.cretres.2016.06.006 [view]

Schlagintweit, F.; Studeny, M.; Sanders, D.

2016

66: 163-170

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A second possible species of the genus Clypeorbis Douvillé [type-species C. mammillata (Schlumberger)] is described from the topmost Maastrichtian of the Kambühel Formation of the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria. This comparatively small-sized, asymmetric calcareous benthic foraminifer is characterized by its rather large biloculine embryonic apparatus and a reduced ventral umbo. It occurs in a mixed calcilithic–bioclastic littoral facies together with orbitoids, rotaliids, Siderolites, and other mainly calcareous benthic foraminifera as well as red algae. The stratigraphy is constrained by means of associated planktonic foraminifera, indicating the latest Maastrichtian age (CF-3 hariaensis zone). Clypeorbis? ultima n. sp. might represent the youngest representative of the Clypeorbinae Sigal that became extinct at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary.

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