Abstract
A new complex larger benthic Foraminifera is described as Cantabriconus? meridionalis n. sp. (?Family Coskinolinidae Moullade) from lower Aptian Urgonian-type shallow-water carbonates of the Reşita – Moldova Nouă zone, southwestern part of Romania. In the literature this form has been assigned to both genera Falsurgonina Arnaud-Vanneau & Argot and Montseciella Cherchi & Schroeder. With its prominent, eccentric initial trochospire, undivided marginal zone, and pillars in the central zone it cannot be included either in the genera Falsurgonina Arnaud-Vanneau & Argot, nor Urgonina Foury & Moullade, or even Montseciella Cherchi & Schroeder. Due to some doubts about the wall structure (solid or pseudo-keriothecal?), the form is here tentatively assigned to the genus Cantabriconus Schlagintweit et al. becoming its possibly third representative apart from the type-species C. reocinianus (upper Aptian–lowermost Albian of Spain, type-species), and C. altaretae (Arnaud-Vanneau) (lower Barremian).
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