Research paper

Pseudorhapydionininae of the Iberian Ranges (Cenomanian, Iberian Peninsula)


LORENZO CONSORTI
Departament de Geologia (Paleontologia), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain. lorenzo.consorti@e-campus.uab.cat
Corresponding author

AMELIA CALONGE
Facultad de Educación, Universidad de Alcalá, c/ Madrid 1, 19001 Guadalajara, Spain. a.calonge@uah.es

ESMERALDA CAUS
Departament de Geologia (Paleontologia), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain. esmeralda.caus@uab.cat


ABSTRACT

Pseudorhapydionina laurinensis, P. dubia, P. anglonensis and Pseudorhipidionina casertana (Subfamily Pseudorhapydionininae) from the Iberian Range are restudied. The age of the deposits containing these species is late Cenomanian. However, a small Pseudorhapydionina (named in this work as P. aff. laurinensis) occurs in the lower Cenomanian deposits suggesting that the origin of the group is in the earliest Cenomanian.


Keywords: Pseudorhapydionininae, porcelaneous foraminifera, Cenomanian, Iberian Ranges, Spain.

How to cite: Consorti, L., Calonge, A.  & Caus, E. 2016. Pseudorhapydionininae of the Iberian Ranges (Cenomanian, Iberian Peninsula). Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, 31 (2), 271-282.

Received 2 December 2015, Accepted 6 May 2016, Published 31 December 2016

https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.31.2.17154