Home Plot Diversity Curves Tree of Life About Admin Login

Welcome to the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology!

Please enter a genera name to retrieve more information.

Search By:
and Class
and Order

Gavelinella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Protista
    Subphylum:  
Sarcodina
    Class:  
Reticularea
    Subclass:  
Granuloreticulosia
    Order:  
Foraminiferida
    Suborder:  
Rotalina
    Superfamily:  
Cassidulinacea
    Family:  
Anomalinidae
    Subfamily:  
Anomalininae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Gavelinella BROTZEN, 1942, *240, p. 7
    Type Species:  
Discorbina pertusa MARSSON, 1878, *1228, p. 166, OD


Images

(Click to enlarge in a new window)

Fossil Image
Fig. 621,5. *G. pertusa (Marsson), U.Cret. (Maastricht.), Eu. (Denm.), 5a-c, opp. sides and edge view, X98 (*2117). -- Fig. 621,6. G. lorneiana (d'Orbigny), U.Cret.(Senon.), Eu.(Fr.), 6a-c, opp. sides and edge view of lectotype, X61 (*2117). -- Fig. 621,7. G. monterelensis (Marie), U.Cret. (Campan.), USSR, 7a-c, opp. sides and edge view, X38 (*265)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu.-N. Am.-S. Am.-Australia-N. Z.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Cret.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Berriasian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
143.1
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Mio.
    Ending International Stage:  
Messinian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
5.34


Description

Test free, trochospiral, biconvex, sides flattened, periphery rounded, all whorls visible on spiral side, on opposite side only chambers of final whorl visible around umbilicus, which is partially closed by subtriangular flaps projecting from umbilical margins of each chamber, small umbilical boss may also be present, wall calcareous, perforate, granular in structure with double septal walls (bilamellar), aperture a low interiomarginal slit extending from near periphery to umbilicus, bordered above by narrow lip which broadens out into triangular flap at umbilical chamber margin, aperture continuous beneath flap with those of earlier chambers.




References



Museum or Author Information