Dinophyceae - Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
Phylum: Dinophyta Class: Dinophyceae Order: Peridiniales Family: Gonyaulacaceae Genus: Spiniferites
Full reference: G. A. Mantell. 1850. A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains. 1-207
Parent taxon: Gonyaulacoideae according to M. Vieira and S. Mahdi 2019
See also Araujo Carvalho 2001 and Mantell 1850
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Spiniferites bejuii Spiniferites chebca Spiniferites cingulatus Spiniferites cornutus Spiniferites dentatus Spiniferites fluens Spiniferites hyalospinosus Spiniferites hyperacanthus Spiniferites lenzii Spiniferites mirabilis Spiniferites multibrevis Spiniferites pseudofurcatus Spiniferites ramosus Spiniferites tripus
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (2 collections), North Pacific (20)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Southern Ocean (2)
• Pliocene of the Netherlands (1), North Pacific (1), Southern Ocean (2)
• Miocene of Argentina (5), Australia (3), Azerbaijan (4), Belgium (1), Panama (2), Peru (1), Southern Ocean (8), United States (1: Maryland)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Denmark (1), Germany (1)
• Eocene of Australia (1), Colombia (1), Japan (1), United States (4: Alaska, North Carolina)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), United States (4: Missouri)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (42), Argentina (15), Brazil (103), Chile (2), Egypt (33), Ghana (24), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 293 collections including 387 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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