Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Parent taxon: Braarudosphaeraceae according to P. R. Bown and J. R. Young 1997
Sister taxa: Bukryaster, Micrantholithus, Pentaster, Quinquerhabdus, Trapezopentus
Subtaxa: Braarudosphaera africana Braarudosphaera bigelowii Braarudosphaera hockwoldensis Braarudosphaera regularis Braarudosphaera stenorhetha Braarudosphaera turbinea
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ireland (1 collection)
• Miocene of Azerbaijan (2), India (1), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Namibia (1), Tonga (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Georgia)
• Paleocene of Argentina (3), United States (3: Missouri, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (4), Austria (1), Canada (2: Alberta), France (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (17)
Total: 45 collections including 50 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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