Parent taxon: Gonyaulacales according to Taylor 1980
See also Povilauskas et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Areoligeraceae, Balcattia, Batiacasphaera, Bourkidinium, Ceratiaceae, Cerebrocysta, Chlamydophorella, Cladopyxiaceae, Dapsilidinium, Dingodinium, Dissimulidinium, Ellipsoidictyum, Elytrocysta, Epiplosphaera, Flamingoia, Fusiformacysta, Gardodinium, Goniodomaceae, Gonyaulacaceae, Heslertonia, Hystrichosphaeridiaceae, Impletosphaeridium, Labyrinthodinium, Lophocysta, Membranilarnacia, Membranilarnax, Moorodinium, Papuadinium, Paucisphaeridium, Peridictyocysta, Productodinium, Reticulatosphaera, Shublikodiniaceae, Tanyosphaeridium, Tetrachacysta, Valensiella, Xiphophoridium
Subtaxa: Cleistosphaeridium aciculare Cleistosphaeridium ancoriferum Cleistosphaeridium armatum Cleistosphaeridium australe Cleistosphaeridium granulatum Cleistosphaeridium polypes
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Miocene of Azerbaijan (2 collections)
• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (1), Denmark (1)
• Eocene of United States (1: Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (5), Argentina (1), Chile (1), Greenland (2), the Russian Federation (8), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 23 collections including 25 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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