Parent taxon: Haptophyta according to M. Hyzny et al. 2012
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, Umbilicosphaera, Vermiculithina, Wiseorhabdus
Subtaxa: Syracosphaera heimii Syracosphaera mediterranea
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (66 collections), North Atlantic (5), North Pacific (29), South Pacific (5)
• G. truncatulinoides PRSZ of Indian Ocean (1)
• Brunhes of North Pacific (5)
• C1 of North Pacific (1)
• G. ruber PRZ of Indian Ocean (22), North Atlantic (1)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (397), Italy (2), North Atlantic (350), North Pacific (122), South Atlantic (4), South Pacific (145)
• G. miocenica HOZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (2)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (71), North Pacific (7), South Pacific (6)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (34), North Atlantic (10), North Pacific (6), South Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (117), Italy (1), North Atlantic (37), North Pacific (51), South Atlantic (5), South Pacific (30)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (7), South Atlantic (2)
• G. tumida/G. nepenthes CRZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (5)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Pacific (1), South Pacific (2)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (46), North Atlantic (4), North Pacific (27), Slovakia (2), South Atlantic (3), South Pacific (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of North Pacific (4)
• Oligocene of North Atlantic (2)
Total: 1641 collections including 1775 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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