original description
Brotzen, F. (1942). Die Foraminiferengattung Gavelinella nov. gen. und die Systematik der Rotaliiformes. <em>Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning.</em> 36(8) C (451): 1-60., available online at https://resource.sgu.se/dokument/publikation/c/c451rapport/c451-rapport.pdf
page(s): p. 19; note: Type species R. nitida = G. nitida [genus is feminine] [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Valvalabamina Reiss, 1963 †) Reiss, Z. (1963). Reclassification of perforate foraminifera. <em>Bull. Geol Surv. Israel.</em> 35: 1-111.
page(s): p. 62 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Revets, S. A. (1996). The generic revision of five families of Rotaliine Foraminifera - Part 2. The Anomalinidae, Alabaminidae, Cancrisidae & Gavelinellidae. <em>Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication.</em> 57-113., available online at http://www.cushmanfoundation.org/specpubs/sp34.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test trochospiral, planoconvex, with flat and evolute spiral side and convex and involute umbilical side, umbilicus open but partially obscured by an umbilical apertural flap, umbilical shoulder angular, sutures radial, very slightly curved, periphery rounded; wall calcareous, optically granular, perforate, surface smooth; aperture a low interiomarginal slit extending from the periphery to the umbilicus, where it is partially obscured by the umbilical flap from the chambers, apertures of previous chambers may remain open in the umbilicus. U. Cretaceous (Cenomanian) to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
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