Foraminifera taxon details
Gonatosphaera Guppy, 1894 †
722064 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722064)
accepted
Genus
Gonatosphaera prolata Guppy, 1894 † (type by original designation)
Species Gonatosphaera alternicostata Cushman & Bermúdez, 1936 †
Species Gonatosphaera colomi Sellier de Civrieux & Dessauvagie, 1965 †
Species Gonatosphaera eocenica Mallory, 1959 †
Species Gonatosphaera inflata Bermúdez, 1949 †
Species Gonatosphaera pinarensis Bermúdez, 1937 †
Species Gonatosphaera principensis Cushman & Bermúdez, 1936 †
Species Gonatosphaera prolata Guppy, 1894 †
Species Gonatosphaera sequana (Berthelin, 1880) † accepted as Ellipsocristellaria sequana (Berthelin, 1880) †
Species Gonatosphaera colomi Sellier de Civrieux & Dessauvagie, 1965 †
Species Gonatosphaera eocenica Mallory, 1959 †
Species Gonatosphaera inflata Bermúdez, 1949 †
Species Gonatosphaera pinarensis Bermúdez, 1937 †
Species Gonatosphaera principensis Cushman & Bermúdez, 1936 †
Species Gonatosphaera prolata Guppy, 1894 †
Species Gonatosphaera sequana (Berthelin, 1880) † accepted as Ellipsocristellaria sequana (Berthelin, 1880) †
marine
fossil only
feminine
Guppy, R. J. L. (1894). On some Foraminifera from the microzoic deposits of Trinidad, West Indies. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> [1894] (4): 647-653., available online at https://archive.org/details/biostor-99808
page(s): p. 651 [details]
page(s): p. 651 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2023). World Foraminifera Database. Gonatosphaera Guppy, 1894 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722064 on 2023-09-28
Date
action
by
original description
Guppy, R. J. L. (1894). On some Foraminifera from the microzoic deposits of Trinidad, West Indies. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> [1894] (4): 647-653., available online at https://archive.org/details/biostor-99808
page(s): p. 651 [details]
basis of record 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]
page(s): p. 651 [details]
basis of record 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] From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test uniserial, short and stout, circular in section, with strongly overlapping chambers, sutures straight and horizontal, may be slightly depressed; wall calcareous, finely perforate, radial in structure, surface smooth or may have a low longitudinal keel in the same plane as the aperture; aperture terminal, an elongate narrow straight or slightly curved slit, bordered by distinctly projecting lips that extend laterally into the marginal keel. U. Oligocene to Miocene; Caribbean: Trinidad; Dominican Republic; Germany. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
 | |
| Gonatosphaera prola... [image from typetaxon] | |