Parent taxon: Prymnesiophyceae according to K. Fujioka et al. 1998
Sister taxa: Athenagalea, Biantholithus, Braarudosphaerales, Ceratolithaceae, Coccolithales, Daktylethra, Discoasterales, Ellipsagelosphaeraceae, Ellipsolithus, Gladiolithus, Ilselithina, Isochrysidales, Lanternithus, Minylitha, Neosphaera, Pedinocyclus, Phaeocystales, Prymnesiales, Rhomboasteraceae, Tetralithoides, Transversopontis, Zygodiscales, Watznaueriales, Sphenolithus, Syracosphaerales, Lapideacassaceae, Tetralithus, Discoasteroides, Calyptrosphaeraceae, Stephanolithiales, Eodiscoaster, Prymnesiophycidae, Goniolithaceae, Arkhangelskiales, Podorhabdales, Eiffellithales
Subtaxa: Cyclicargolithus floridanus Cyclicargolithus luminis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (1 collection), South Pacific (2)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (78), North Atlantic (2), North Pacific (9), South Atlantic (2), South Pacific (201)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (20)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (43), North Atlantic (4), North Pacific (15), South Pacific (33)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (17)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indian Ocean (2), North Pacific (1)
• Miocene of Azerbaijan (1), India (1), Indian Ocean (356), Micronesia (7), North Atlantic (39), North Pacific (416), Slovenia (1), South Pacific (114), Southern Ocean (1)
• NN1 of Indian Ocean (11), North Atlantic (5), North Pacific (17), South Pacific (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indian Ocean (4), North Atlantic (22), North Pacific (31), South Pacific (13)
• Oligocene of Indian Ocean (54), North Atlantic (101), North Pacific (132), South Pacific (67), Southern Ocean (27)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (7)
• NP21 of North Pacific (13)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (3), North Pacific (1), South Pacific (14), Southern Ocean (1)
• Eocene of Indian Ocean (17), North Atlantic (112), North Pacific (35), South Pacific (83), United States (1: Georgia)
• Paleocene of North Atlantic (3), South Atlantic (1)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (1)
• Cretaceous of Indian Ocean (1), South Pacific (4)
Total: 2153 collections including 2524 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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