Rhomboaster Bramlette and Sullivan 1961 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Rhomboasteraceae

Full reference: M. N. Bramlette and F. R. Sullivan. 1961. Coccolithophorids and related nannoplankton of the Early Tertiary in California. Micropaleontology 7(2):129-188

Parent taxon: Rhomboasteraceae according to P. R. Bown 2005

Sister taxon: Tribrachiatus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Rhomboaster in the database

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