Parent taxon: Prymnesiophyceae according to K. Fujioka et al. 1998
See also Andrews 1970
Sister taxa: Athenagalea, Biantholithus, Braarudosphaerales, Ceratolithaceae, Coccolithales, Daktylethra, Discoasterales, Ellipsagelosphaeraceae, Ellipsolithus, Gladiolithus, Ilselithina, Isochrysidales, Lanternithus, Minylitha, Neosphaera, Pedinocyclus, Phaeocystales, Prymnesiales, Rhomboasteraceae, Tetralithoides, Transversopontis, Zygodiscales, Lapideacassaceae, Watznaueriales, Podorhabdales, Prymnesiophycidae, Stephanolithiales, Cyclicargolithus, Goniolithaceae, Eodiscoaster, Discoasteroides, Calyptrosphaeraceae, Syracosphaerales, Eiffellithales, Arkhangelskiales, Tetralithus
Subtaxa: Sphenolithus abies Sphenolithus compactus Sphenolithus heteromorphus Sphenolithus moriformis Sphenolithus radians
Type: Sphenolithus radians
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (5 collections), North Pacific (3)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (69), North Atlantic (3), North Pacific (52), South Pacific (130)
• G. miocenica HOZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (2)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (59), South Pacific (7)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (1)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Indian Ocean (319), Italy (1), North Atlantic (35), North Pacific (166), South Atlantic (13), South Pacific (33)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (57), North Pacific (11), South Atlantic (12), South Pacific (14)
• G. tumida/G. nepenthes CRZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (19)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), Indian Ocean (8), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (12), South Pacific (3)
• Miocene of Azerbaijan (2), Croatia (1), Ecuador (2), France (1), Greece (1), India (1), Indian Ocean (1068), Indonesia (2), Italy (2), Japan (1), Micronesia (7), North Atlantic (51), North Pacific (831), Slovenia (1), South Atlantic (25), South Pacific (162), Taiwan (1), Tanzania (1)
• Neogene of Indian Ocean (3), South Pacific (2)
• NN1 of Indian Ocean (10), North Atlantic (5), North Pacific (17), South Pacific (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indian Ocean (3), North Atlantic (19), North Pacific (33), South Pacific (12)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Indian Ocean (63), North Atlantic (101), North Pacific (331), South Pacific (66)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (12)
• NP21 of Indian Ocean (1), North Pacific (11)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (4), North Pacific (34), South Pacific (16)
• Eocene of Indian Ocean (29), North Atlantic (212), North Pacific (155), South Pacific (182), Tonga (1), Ukraine (7), United States (5: California, Georgia, North Carolina)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (4), South Pacific (2)
• Paleocene of Indian Ocean (16), North Atlantic (43), South Pacific (12), Tanzania (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of North Atlantic (5), South Pacific (3)
• Cretaceous of Indian Ocean (11)
Total: 4638 collections including 8028 occurrences
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