Taxonomic revision of Paracoskinolina fleuryi Decrouez and Moullade, 1974, ‘primitive’ orbitolinid foraminifera from the early Cenomanian of Greece and its stratigraphic and palaeogeographic records

A small-sized orbitolinid was originally reported as Coskinolinoides cf. texanus Keijzer from Cenomanian carbonates of western Greece in the early seventies, later described as the new species Paracoskinolina fleuryi Decrouez and Moullade. However, its internal test structure does not fit the characteristics of the genus Paracoskinolina Moullade emend. Arnaud-Vanneau. The original generic assignment is re-instated herein, but its more complex marginal zone does not allow for assignment to Coskinolinoides texanus described from the middle–upper Albian of Texas. Coskinolinoides fleuryi (Decrouez and Moullade) comb. nov., becoming the second nominal species of the genus, shows an unusual broad and dispersed distribution (Senegal, Tunisia, Spain, Greece, Philippines) with stratigraphic records encompassing the latest Aptian?–Albian to early Cenomanian interval. Despite the present contribution, the genus Paracoskinolina still contains additional species that need taxonomic revision.