Amaurolithus primus Bukry and Percival 1971 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Ceratolithaceae

Alternative combination: Ceratolithus primus

Belongs to Amaurolithus according to Gartner and Bukry 1975

Sister taxa: none

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of South Pacific (1 collection)

• NN16 of Indian Ocean (1), South Pacific (3)

• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (24), North Atlantic (3), North Pacific (5), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (19)

• NN12 of Indian Ocean (22), South Atlantic (8), South Pacific (9)

• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (2)

• Miocene of Indian Ocean (104), North Atlantic (3), North Pacific (39), South Atlantic (16), South Pacific (8), Tanzania (1)

• Oligocene of North Atlantic (2)

• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (1)

Total: 272 collections each including a single occurrence

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