Gavelinellidae

Gavelinella pertusa, from Revets (1996).

Belongs within: Rosalinida.

The Gavelinellidae are a Cretaceous to Recent group of trochospiral foraminiferans with an interiomarginal equatorial aperture.

<==GavelinellidaeM13
    |--Gavelinella Brotzen 1942LT64 [incl. Pseudovalvulineria Brotzen 1942LT64; GavelinellinaeM13]
    |    |--*G. pertusa (Marsson 1878) [=Discorbina pertusa]LT64
    |    |--G. atatschayensisBL79
    |    |--G. danicaG-B87
    |    |--G. djaffaroviBL79
    |    |--G. gankinoensisG-B87
    |    |--G. lorneiana (d’Orbigny 1840) [=Rosalina lorneiana, *Pseudovalvulineria lorneiana]LT64
    |    |--G. rudisBL79
    |    |--G. sandidgeiM08
    |    `--G. suturalisBL79
    |--Brotzenella Vasilenko in Bykova et al. 1958LT64 [BrotzenellinaeM13]
    |    `--*B. monterelensis (Marie 1941) [=Anomalina monterelensis, Favelinella monterelensis]LT64
    `--PseudogavelinellinaeM13

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[BL79] Basov, V. A., B. G. Lopatin, I. S. Gramberg, A. I. Danjushevskaya, V. Ya. Kaban’kov, V. M. Lazurkin & D. K. Patrunov. 1979. Lower Cretaceous lithostratigraphy near Galicia Bank. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 47: 683–717.

[G-B87] Gawor-Biedowa, E. 1987. New benthic foraminifers from the Late Cretaceous of Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 32 (1–2): 49–72.

[LT64] Loeblich, A. R., Jr & H. Tappan. 1964. Sarcodina: chiefly “thecamoebians” and Foraminiferida. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt C. Protista 2 vol. 2. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press.

[M08] McMillan, I. K. 2008. Reappraisal of foraminiferal assemblages of the Santonian–Campanian Mzamba Formation type section, and their correlation with the stratigraphic succession of the KwaZulu Basin. African Natural History 4: 25–34.

[M13] Mikhalevich, V. I. 2013. New insight into the systematics and evolution of the Foraminifera. Micropaleontology 59 (6): 493–527.

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