Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Synonyms: Discolithina Loeblich and Tappan 1963, Discolithus Huxley 1868
Parent taxon: Prymnesiophycidae according to K. Perch-Nielsen 1985
Sister taxa: Braarudosphaeraceae, Centosphaera, Ceratolithina, Ceratolithoides, Chiphragmalithus, Coccolithites, Coccolithus, Cricolithus, Cruciplacolithus, Discoaster, Eoconusphaeraceae, Haqius, Kokia, Liliasterites, Markalius, Marthasterites, Microrhabdulaceae, Nannoconaceae, Neochiastozygus, Orthogonoides, Prinsiosphaera, Prolatipatella, Repagulum, Rhabdolithus, Schizosphaerellaceae, Tortolithus, Triquetrorhabdulus, Watkinsia, Zygolithus, Zygrhablithus
Subtaxa: Discolithus exilis Discolithus solidus Pontosphaera exilis Pontosphaera multipora Pontosphaera obliquipons Pontosphaera pulchra
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ireland (1 collection), Italy (2)
• Pliocene of Italy (1)
• Miocene of Azerbaijan (1), Greece (1), Indonesia (1), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Peru (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: California, Georgia)
• Paleocene of Tanzania (1)
Total: 18 collections including 31 occurrences
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