“…In the late Barremian-early Aptian the cardinal form of this group was Palorbitolina lenticularis (Blumenbach), a species known from Mexico (Meza, 1980), the Central Atlantic (Gupta and Grant, 1971), the Mediterranean, Middle East and African regions (Pelissie et aI., 1982;Peybernes, 1982;Peybernes and Forster, 1987;Simmons and Hart, 1987), Borneo (Hofker, 1963) and the Philippines (Wolcke and Scholz, 1988).…”