Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Alternative combination: Coccosphaera pelagica
Belongs to Coccolithus according to M. S. G. Estebenet et al. 2020
See also Faranda et al. 2008, Fujioka et al. 1998 and Perez Panera 2013
Sister taxa: Coccolithus bidens, Coccolithus consuetus, Coccolithus eminens, Coccolithus expansus, Coccolithus formosus, Coccolithus grandis, Coccolithus occultatus, Coccolithus solitus, Coccolithus staurion, Tremalithus oamaruensis, Cyclococcolithus luminis, Cyclococcolithina, Cyclococcolithus reticulatus, Cyclococcolithus formosus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ireland (1 collection), Italy (2)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Italy (1)
• Miocene of Azerbaijan (2), Ecuador (1), France (1), Greece (1), India (1), Micronesia (7), Slovakia (3), Slovenia (1), Taiwan (1), United States (1: California)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Jordan (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: California, Georgia)
• Paleocene of Argentina (4), United States (3: Missouri, South Carolina)
Total: 38 collections including 41 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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