Phylum: Dinophyta Class: Dinophyceae Order: Gonyaulacales Genus: Batiacasphaera
Full reference: W.S. Drugg. 1970. Some new genera, species, and combinations of phytoplankton from the Lower Tertiary of the Gulf Coast, U.S.A. Proceedings of the North American Paleontological Convention, Chicago, September 5-7, 1969 2:809-843
Parent taxon: Gonyaulacales according to W.S. Drugg 1970
Sister taxa: Areoligeraceae, Balcattia, Bourkidinium, Ceratiaceae, Cerebrocysta, Chlamydophorella, Cladopyxiaceae, Cleistosphaeridium, 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: Batiacasphaera angularis Batiacasphaera asperata Batiacasphaera kekerengensis Batiacasphaera macrogranulata Batiacasphaera norvickii Batiacasphaera ovata Batiacasphaera reticulata Batiacasphaera scrobiculata Batiacasphaera subtilis
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Southern Ocean (2 collections)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Southern Ocean (1)
• Pliocene of Southern Ocean (2)
• Miocene of Azerbaijan (5), Southern Ocean (11), United States (1: Maryland)
• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (1), Germany (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (3)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (3), Argentina (1), Nigeria (21)
• Jurassic of the Russian Federation (4)
Total: 56 collections including 71 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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