Description Of Two New Families, Three New Species and Re-Description Of Four known Genera And One Subfamily From The Larger Benthic Foraminifera Of Paleocene In Turkey

Two new foraminiferal families are introduced as follows: the Anatoliellidae (type genus Anatoliella Sirel) in the superfamily Ataxophragmiacea Schwager and the family Bolkarinidae (type genus Bolkarina Sirel) in the superfamily Orbitoidacea Schwager. Three new species of Paleocene are described and figured as follows: Ranikothalia polatliensis, Nurdanella paleocenica, Periloculina yilmazi. In addition, four known Paleocene genera such as Bolkarina Sirel, Globoflarina Rahaghi, Nurdanella Özgen and Coskinon Hottinger and Drobne and subfamily Globoflarininae are redescribed

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