A new Foraminifera from the upper Middle Eocene of the Ebro Basin, Spain

Abstract

Serraia cataloniensis gen. et sp. nov. is differentiated from other pellatispiracean Foraminifera by the presence of one or more intercalary whorls of median chambers winding in the same direction as the primary whorl, and by frequent protoconchal and deureroconchal diverticula and a short spire of chambers around the deuteroconch. S. cataloniensis is described from the La Tossa Formation of the Bartonian regressive cycle of sedimentation in the Ebro Basin, Barcelona region, Spain.