Dinophyceae - Gonyaulacales - Goniodomaceae
Belongs to Hystrichosphaeridium according to Cookson and Eisenack 1974
Sister taxa: Hystrichosphaeridium anthophorum, Hystrichosphaeridium arundum, Hystrichosphaeridium assamicum, Hystrichosphaeridium cambayense, Hystrichosphaeridium capitatum, Hystrichosphaeridium complex, Hystrichosphaeridium dictyophorum, Hystrichosphaeridium grandis, Hystrichosphaeridium hirsutum, Hystrichosphaeridium lateraliprocessum, Hystrichosphaeridium mineralosum, Hystrichosphaeridium pachydermum, Hystrichosphaeridium parvispinum, Hystrichosphaeridium perifurcatus, Hystrichosphaeridium perplexum, Hystrichosphaeridium ramuliferum, Hystrichosphaeridium recurvatum, Hystrichosphaeridium robustum, Hystrichosphaeridium salpingophorum, Hystrichosphaeridium scaffoldii, Hystrichosphaeridium senii, Hystrichosphaeridium siphoniphorum, Hystrichosphaeridium sylheti, Hystrichosphaeridium tenuitubatum, Hystrichosphaeridium torynum, Hystrichosphaeridium transculentum, Hystrichosphaeridium truswelliae, Hystrichosphaeridium tubiferum
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution: found only at Lachman Crags Member- Santa Marta Formation (Cretaceous of Antarctica)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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