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, Calyptrosphaeraceae, Goniolithaceae, Arkhangelskiales, Prymnesiophycidae, Eiffellithales, Syracosphaerales, Stephanolithiales, Tetralithus, Discoasteroides, Lapideacassaceae, Sphenolithus, Podorhabdales, Eodiscoaster
Subtaxa: Cyclicargolithus floridanus Cyclicargolithus luminis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of North Atlantic (1 collection)
• Miocene of Azerbaijan (1), India (1), Micronesia (7), Slovenia (1)
• Eocene of United States (1: Georgia)
• Paleocene of South Atlantic (1)
Total: 13 collections including 14 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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