  We report the case of the early-type disk galaxy NGC 4672 as a new example of
a galaxy characterized by the orthogonal geometrical decoupling between bulge
and disk. The morphological features of this galaxy are discussed as well as
the velocity curves and velocity dispersion profiles of stars and ionized gas
along both its major and minor axis. We conclude that NGC 4672 has structural
(i.e., a bulge elongated perpendicularly to the disk) and kinematical (i.e., a
stellar core rotating perpendicularly to the disk) properties similar to those
of the Sa NGC 4698. The presence of the isolated core suggests that the disk
component is the end result of the acquisition of external material in polar
orbits around a pre-existing oblate spheroid as in the case of the ring
component of AM 2020-504, the prototype of polar ring ellipticals.

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