Foraminifera taxon details
Gravellina Brönnimann, 1953 †
739145 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:739145)
accepted
Genus
Gravellina narivaensis Brönnimann, 1953 † (type by original designation)
Bronnimannina Singh & Kalia, 1969 † · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym in...)
subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Brönnimann, P. (1953). Arenaceous foraminifera from the Oligo-Miocene of Trinidad. <em>Contributions from the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 4: 87-100., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/portals/_default/files/pubarchive/CCFFR/04ccffr3.pdf
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Diagnosis Test free, subconical, forming an elongate trochospiral coil, constantly with four chambers per whorl that overlap strongly...
Diagnosis Test free, subconical, forming an elongate trochospiral coil, constantly with four chambers per whorl that overlap strongly the earlier part of the test so that final whorl comprises nearly half the test length; wall agglutinated, thick, interior simple; aperture a small interiomarginal opening. Eocene to Miocene; Trinidad, West Indies; India. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Gravellina Brönnimann, 1953 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=739145 on 2025-06-06
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Brönnimann, P. (1953). Arenaceous foraminifera from the Oligo-Miocene of Trinidad. <em>Contributions from the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 4: 87-100., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/portals/_default/files/pubarchive/CCFFR/04ccffr3.pdf
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original description (of Bronnimannina Singh & Kalia, 1969 †) Singh, S. N.; Kalia, P. (1969). Bronnimannina-a new genus of foraminifera from the middle Kirthars of Shri Kolayatji area, Bikaner, Rajasthan. <em>Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India.</em> 13[1968]: 44-47., available online at http://palaeontologicalsociety.in/vol13/v6.pdf
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page(s): p. 87 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Bronnimannina Singh & Kalia, 1969 †) Singh, S. N.; Kalia, P. (1969). Bronnimannina-a new genus of foraminifera from the middle Kirthars of Shri Kolayatji area, Bikaner, Rajasthan. <em>Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India.</em> 13[1968]: 44-47., available online at http://palaeontologicalsociety.in/vol13/v6.pdf
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test free, subconical, forming an elongate trochospiral coil, constantly with four chambers per whorl that overlap strongly the earlier part of the test so that final whorl comprises nearly half the test length; wall agglutinated, thick, interior simple; aperture a small interiomarginal opening. Eocene to Miocene; Trinidad, West Indies; India. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
