Coccolithophyceae - Braarudosphaerales - Polycyclolithaceae
Synonym: Nannotetraster Martini and Stradner 1960
Full reference: V. N. Vekshina. 1959. Coccolithophoridae in Maastrichtian deposits of the Western Siberian Lowland. Tr. Sibirsk, Nauchn.- Issled. Geol. Geofiz. i Mineraln Syr'ya, 2:56-77
Parent taxon: Polycyclolithaceae according to J. A. Lees and P. R. Bown 2005
See also Young and Bown 1997
Sister taxa: Assipetra, Eprolithus, Farhania, Hayesites, Hexalithus, Lithastrinus, Polycostella, Quadrum, Radiolithus, Rucinolithus, Tegulalithus, Uniplanarius
Subtaxa: Micula adumbrata Micula clypeata Micula concava Micula cubiformis Micula decussata Micula murus Micula praemurus Micula premolisilvae Micula prinsii Micula staurophora Micula swastica
Type: Micula decussata
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Argentina (10 collections), Indian Ocean (2), South Atlantic (1), Tanzania (1)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (5), Türkiye (2)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (26), Belgium (1), Canada (1: Alberta), Egypt (2), France (1), Indian Ocean (55), North Atlantic (8), North Pacific (5), South Atlantic (9), South Pacific (1), Tanzania (1), Türkiye (1), United States (9: Alabama, Mississippi, Texas)
Total: 144 collections including 262 occurrences
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