Discoaster adamanteus Bramlette and Wilcoxon 1967 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae

Belongs to Discoaster according to K. Fujioka et al. 1998

Sister taxa: Discoaster bellus, Discoaster brouweri, Discoaster deflandrei, Discoaster intercalaris, Discoaster quinqueramus, Discoaster surculus, Discoaster variabilis

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (1 collection), North Pacific (1)

• NN12 of Indian Ocean (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (1)

• Miocene of Indian Ocean (9), Micronesia (7), North Pacific (16)

• NN1 of Indian Ocean (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of North Pacific (1)

• Oligocene of North Pacific (21)

• Eocene of North Pacific (1)

Total: 60 collections each including a single occurrence

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