Catinaster Martini and Bramlette 1963 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Discoasterales - Discoasteraceae

Parent taxon: Discoasteraceae according to A. Peleo-Alampay et al. 1998

See also Renema et al. 2015

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of South Pacific (1 collection)

• Miocene of Indian Ocean (59), Indonesia (1), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (66), South Pacific (7)

• Paleocene to Eocene of North Atlantic (1)

• Paleocene of North Atlantic (8)

Total: 144 collections including 190 occurrences

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.