Late Cretaceous Planktonic Foraminifera of the Mountainous Crimea in the MSU Earth Science Museum’s Collection
Journal: Палеонтологический журнал
Year: 2023

Planktonic foraminifers are widely distributed in the Upper Cretaceous deposits of the Mountainous Crimea. Marker species are of great importance for biostratigraphy and section correlation. Tests Globotruncanita stuarti (De Lapparent, 1918) and Pseudotextularia elegans (Rzehak, 1891) are used as index species for local and regional biostratigraphic scales, and tests of the genus Rugoglobigerina Brönnimann, 1952 are for the faunal layers. The article provides a systematic description of importan