Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 7. (Budapest 1956)

Franzenau, Á. ; Majzon, L.: New and interesting Foraminifera species

< New and Interesting Foraminifera Species By \ Á. FRANZENAU & L. MAJZON, Budapest Z. Schréter gave me, in 1951, a MS fragment of Franzena u,*for an eventual rewriting and subsequent publication. During its thorough perusal, I have found some notes, descriptions, and also figures of new species without the concurrent descriptions, all of which deserve publication with certain completing notes and modern criticism. By the way, as is to be seen from a memo attached to the MS, Z. Schréter, as early as in the May of 1926, has called the attention of the Directorate of the National Geological Institute to the insufficiencies of the papers (scanty descriptions, wanting figures) published as short excerpts, indeed, as nothing very much more than faunistic lists, of the material in his possession originating from Romhány, Markusevec and Zsupane (near Zagreb). On the basis of his justified reasons, he begs the Directorate to supply the deficiencies with newer and a more detailed exposition, but this had inexplicably failed to come about. We aim to mend this failure at the occasion of the centenary of F r a n z e n a u's birth. With a renewed perusal of the MS, that is, notes, — which, by the way, I have forwarded to the Department of Natural History Documentation of the Natural History Museum — I found in them, besides the faunas mentioned above, the faunistic lists together with the sketchy description of some species of the Härtel hill in Kismarton (Austria) and Szob (Hungary). So, for instance, one may find the description and the relevant figure in one case, and the figure of the new species in some other cases. I may remark in passing that the species published now will be discussed according to the modern, and eventually recent, systematical order. The Types of the material under discussion are in the Paleontological Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Markusevec Franzenau [1] gives only the list of the secondarily situated Markusevec fauna nor does he give the figures of all of his new species in a less known paper (which contains however, two Plates) published in Zagreb [2]. Let us note that the figures of the two plates had been drawn by somebody else, since their composition is far behind the well-knows, true and artistical figures of Franzenau. On the other hand, I had at my disposal, besides the Hungarian text, the original drawings of the author, save that those of the Uvigerina species had been missing. Otherwise, in the cemented Markusevec sand, which, on the basis of its Molluska fauna originates from the Lower Pannonian, the Foraminifera are, as I have already observed, secondary and have landed from the adjacent Middle Miocene layers into the younger littoral deposits. Glandulina hantkeni Franzenau (Plate I, fig. 18) 1875. Glandulina laevigata D'Orbigny, — Hantken, Földt. Int. Évk. IV. p. 34. Plate IV, fig. 7. 1894. Glandulina Hantkeni Franzenau, — Franzenau, Földt. Közi. XXIV. p. 25. 1894. Glandulina Hantkeni Franzenau, — Franzenau, Glasnika hrvat. naravoslov. drustva, VI. p. 10.