Taxonomy
Original description: Test nearly twice as long as broad, tapering, throughout, much compressed, early portion with the periphery entire and slightly keeled, later moderatly indented; chambers in the microspheric form mostly slightly broader than high, in the megalospheric form with the later chambers with the height often as great or greater than the breadth, later ones more inflated but somewhat compressed throughout; sutures in the early portion slightly limbate, in the adult depressed; wall in the early portion coarsely punctulate, somewhat roughened, in the adult smooth and polished; aperture higher than broad, arched with a slight lip and flanges at the sides extending onto the preceding chamber.
Entries in the Catalog of original descriptions: Guembelina glabrans
Character matrix
test outline: | Subtriangular | chamber arrangement: | Biserial | edge view: | Compressed | aperture: | Interiomarginal |
sp chamber shape: | N/A | coiling axis: | N/A | periphery: | N/A | aperture border: | Thin flange |
umb chbr shape: | N/A | umbilicus: | Wide | periph margin shape: | N/A | accessory apertures: | None |
spiral sutures: | Moderately depressed | umb depth: | Shallow | wall texture: | Smooth | shell porosity: | Microperforate: <1µm |
umbilical or test sutures: | Weakly depressed | final-whorl chambers: | 2-2 | N.B. These characters are used for advanced search. N/A - not applicable |
Most likely ancestor: Laeviheterohelix pulchra - at confidence level 3 (out of 5). Data source: Nederbragt 1991.
Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): within A. mayaroensis zone (67.64-69.27Ma, top in Maastrichtian stage). Data source: [copied from Chronos database]
First occurrence (base): within G. havanensis zone (74.00-75.71Ma, base in Campanian stage). Data source: [copied from Chronos database]
Plot of range and occurrence data:
Cushman, J. A. (1938). Cretaceous species of Guembelina and related genera. Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research. 14: 2-28. gs Huber, B. T., Tur, N., Self-Trail, J. & MacLeod, K. G. (2022a). Calcareous plankton biostratigraphic fidelity and species richness during the last 10 m.y. of the Cretaceous at Blake Plateau, subtropical North Atlantic. Cretaceous Research. 131: 1-42. gs Nederbragt, A. J. (1989b). Maastrichtian Heterohelicidae (Planktonic Foraminifera) from the North West Atlantic. Journal of Micropalaeontology. 8(2): 183-206. gs Pessagno, E. A. (1967). Upper Cretaceous planktonic foraminifera from the western Gulf Coastal Plain. Palaeontographica Americana. 5: 245-445. gs O Smith, C. C. & Pessagno, E. A. (1973). Planktonic foraminifera and stratigraphy of the Corsicana formation (Maestrichtian) North-central Texas. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication. 12: 1-67. gs OReferences:
Laeviheterohelix glabrans compiled by the pforams@mikrotax project team viewed: 11-10-2024
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