Coccolithophyceae - Ceratolithaceae
Parent taxon: Ceratolithaceae according to M. Reuter et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Angulolithina, Ceratolithus, Florisphaera, Nicklithus, Orthorhabdus
Subtaxa: Amaurolithus primus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (4 collections), North Pacific (4), South Pacific (1)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (12), South Pacific (4)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (96), North Atlantic (7), North Pacific (31), South Atlantic (4), South Pacific (20)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (43), North Pacific (8), South Atlantic (10), South Pacific (10)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (6)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (170), Italy (1), North Atlantic (7), North Pacific (95), South Atlantic (29), South Pacific (8), Tanzania (1)
• Neogene of South Pacific (2)
• Oligocene of North Atlantic (2)
• Eocene of North Atlantic (16)
• Paleocene of North Atlantic (2)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (4)
• Cretaceous of North Pacific (1)
Total: 599 collections including 863 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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