The morphology and composition of the superfamily Favusellacea and the families constituting it are revised. A new genus of the Planktonic foraminifers Tenuigerina gen. nov. and Globigerina (Eoglobigerina) balakhmatovae Morozova, 1961 as its type species from the lower part of the Bathonian of central Dagestan are de scribed. The genus members are known from the Bathonian to the Kimmeridgian.