Synonym: Geminilithella Backman 1980
Full reference: H. Lohmann. 1902. Die Coccolithophoridae, eine Monographie der Coccolithen bildenden Flagellaten, zugleich ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis des Mittelmeerauftriebs. Archiv für Protistenkunde 1:89-165
Parent taxon: Haptophyta according to M. Hyzny et al. 2012
See also Backman 1980 and Lohmann 1902
Sister taxa: Aspidorhabdus, Camuralithus, Coccolithophyceae, Conococcolithus, Corannulus, Craspedolithus, Crassapontosphaera, Crassidiscus, Cricosphaera, Cyclolithella, Cycloperfolithus, Discoasteridae, Duplexipodorhabdus, Ellipsodiscoaster, Helicosphaera, Heliorthus, Koczyia, Leptodiscus, Lithostromationaceae, Nannocorbis, Orthozygus, Pervilithus, Phanulithus, Pyrocyclus, Reticulofenestra, Rhabdolithina, Sphenaster, Striatococcolithus, Syracosphaera, Vermiculithina, Wiseorhabdus
Subtaxa: Umbilicosphaera jafari
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (91 collections), North Pacific (45), South Pacific (28)
• G. truncatulinoides PRSZ of Indian Ocean (1)
• Brunhes of North Pacific (9)
• G. ruber PRZ of Indian Ocean (28)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (575), North Atlantic (142), North Pacific (146), South Pacific (179)
• G. miocenica HOZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (2)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (58), North Pacific (3), South Pacific (6)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (42), North Atlantic (7), North Pacific (4)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (191), North Atlantic (38), North Pacific (76), South Pacific (67)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (10), North Pacific (5)
• G. tumida/G. nepenthes CRZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (15)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indian Ocean (4), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (6), South Pacific (4)
• Miocene of Greece (1), India (1), Indian Ocean (575), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), North Atlantic (13), North Pacific (291), Slovakia (2), South Pacific (35)
• NN1 of Indian Ocean (1), North Pacific (13)
• Oligocene to Miocene of North Pacific (6), South Pacific (2)
• Oligocene of Indian Ocean (5)
• Eocene of North Atlantic (89), North Pacific (8)
• Paleocene of North Atlantic (1), Tanzania (1)
Total: 2829 collections including 3571 occurrences
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