Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Belongs to Discoaster according to J. P. Pérez Panera 2013
See also Fujioka et al. 1998
Sister taxa: Discoaster adamanteus, Discoaster bellus, Discoaster brouweri, Discoaster intercalaris, Discoaster quinqueramus, Discoaster surculus, Discoaster variabilis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (5 collections), North Atlantic (2), South Pacific (91)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of North Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (3), North Atlantic (4), North Pacific (9), South Pacific (6)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Pacific (1)
• Neogene of Indian Ocean (2)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (198), Micronesia (7), North Atlantic (37), North Pacific (367), South Pacific (70), Taiwan (1)
• NN1 of Indian Ocean (10), North Atlantic (5), North Pacific (17), South Pacific (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (22), North Pacific (40), South Pacific (10)
• Oligocene of Costa Rica (1), Indian Ocean (25), North Atlantic (93), North Pacific (303), South Pacific (57), Southern Ocean (1)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (1)
• NP21 of North Pacific (5)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (28), South Pacific (7)
• Eocene of Indian Ocean (4), North Atlantic (48), North Pacific (57), South Pacific (9), United States (1: California)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (2)
• Cretaceous of Indian Ocean (2)
Total: 1560 collections including 1561 occurrences
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