ALANLORDIA, A NEW GENUS OF ACERVULINE FORAMINIFERA FROM THE NEOGENE OF INDONESIA

Samples from Neogene limestones of the Indonesian islands of Nias and Tuangku, west of Sumatra, have yielded assemblages of foraminifera whi ch include Alanlordia niasensis niasensis n.gen., n.sp., in the Late P liocene, a new Acervulinid which grossly homeomorphs the Maastrichtian Vanderbeekia of the Middle East, while the Serravallian limestones co ntain the ancestral A. niasensis primitiva, n. subsp., and the deeper marine and morphologically simpler A. banyakensis n. sp., which grossl y homeomorphs Wilfordia of the Eocene.