New Ostracoda Species in the Upper Part of the Tanjero Formation (Late Maastrichtian), Sulaimaniyha City, Kurdistan Regin-NE- Iraq

Volume 22 , Issue 2 , December 2020 , Pages 119-130

Authors

Zardasht Ahmed Taha 1

1 Department of geology, College of Science, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region- Iraq

DOI logo 10.17656/jzs.10813

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The present work is focused on the ostracoda study from the upper part of the Tanjero Formation (Late Maastrichtian), Qlyassan area, Sulaimaniya city, Northeasten Iraq. The Tanjero Formation in Qlyassan section (5 m thick) consists of   brownish grey to dark gray marl to silty marl with thin graded sandstone, more than one hundred specimens picked up, fourteen species from nine genera of ostracods  were identified and illustrated in the upper unit of the Tanjero Formation. Three new species from the fourteen identified species are recognized which are Cytherella sulaimaniensis sp. nov., Cardobairdia tanjeroiensis sp. nov. and Pontocyprella  qlyasaniensis sp .nov. These three new species support the age of the Tanjero Formation as the Late Masstrichtian (Upper Cretaceous).

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