†Discoaster bellus Bukry and Percival 1971 (haptophyte alga)
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Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Belongs to Discoaster according to Bukry and Percival 1971
Sister taxa: Discoaster adamanteus, Discoaster brouweri, Discoaster deflandrei, Discoaster intercalaris, Discoaster quinqueramus, Discoaster surculus, Discoaster variabilis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of North Atlantic (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (4), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (1)
• Neogene of South Pacific (2)
• Miocene of Greece (1), Indian Ocean (76), North Atlantic (2), North Pacific (96), South Pacific (10)
• Oligocene of South Pacific (1)
Total: 195 collections each including a single occurrence
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