Sphenolithus heteromorphus Deflandre 1953 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae

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

Sister taxa: Sphenolithus abies, Sphenolithus compactus, Sphenolithus moriformis, Sphenolithus radians

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (2 collections), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (7), South Pacific (30)

• Pliocene of North Atlantic (3), North Pacific (16)

• NN12 of Indian Ocean (1)

• Miocene of Azerbaijan (1), Croatia (1), Indian Ocean (134), Indonesia (1), Japan (1), Micronesia (7), North Atlantic (7), North Pacific (191), Slovenia (1), South Pacific (40)

• Oligocene to Miocene of South Pacific (2)

• Oligocene of South Pacific (1)

• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (1)

• Eocene to Oligocene of South Pacific (1)

• Cretaceous of Indian Ocean (7)

Total: 456 collections each including a single occurrence

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