Amaurolithus Gartner and Bukry 1975 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Ceratolithaceae

Parent taxon: Ceratolithaceae according to M. Reuter et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Angulolithina, Ceratolithus, Florisphaera, Nicklithus, Orthorhabdus

Subtaxa: Amaurolithus primus

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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

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