Daughter taxa (time control age-window is: 0-800Ma)![]() | ||||
| Guembelitria cenomana | ||||
| Guembelitria cretacea | ||||
| Guembelitria sergipensis | ||||
| Guembelitria sp. Specimens which cannot be assigned to established species | ||||
Taxonomy
Original description: Test similar to Guembelina, but triserial; wall calcareous, finely perforate; aperture large, at the inner edge of the last-formed chamber. This genus is widely distributed in the Upper Cretaceous of North and South America.
Entries in the Catalog of original descriptions: Guembelitria
Distinguishing features:
Parent taxon (Guembelitriidae): Early stage trochospiral, triserial, or biserial, later may show serial reduction or proliferation.
This taxon: Test subconical, chambers globular and inflated, triserial throughout, sutures distinct, depressed; wall calcareous, optically radial, finely and irregularly perforate, with each pore elevated on a pore mound; aperture an interiomarginal arch at the base of the final chamber, with an imperforate bordering lip.
Diagnostic characters:
Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): at top of P1b subzone (100% up, 63.9Ma, in Danian stage). Data source: Total of ranges of the species in this database
First occurrence (base): within P. cheniourensis zone (118.02-118.93Ma, base in Aptian stage). Data source: Total of ranges of species in this database
Plot of range and occurrence data:
Loeblich, A. R. & Tappan, H. (1988). Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification (Volume I-II). Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. 1-1059. gs Missing or ambiguous references: Cushman 1933 32-38; References:

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Guembelitria compiled by the pforams@mikrotax project team viewed: 16-12-2025
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