Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Belongs to Discoaster according to Tan Sin Hok 1927
Sister taxa: Discoaster adamanteus, Discoaster bellus, Discoaster deflandrei, Discoaster intercalaris, Discoaster quinqueramus, Discoaster surculus, Discoaster variabilis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of North Pacific (1 collection)
• G. ruber PRZ of Indian Ocean (1)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (206), North Atlantic (8), North Pacific (61), South Atlantic (5), South Pacific (68)
• G. miocenica HOZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (12)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (156), North Pacific (8), South Atlantic (3), South Pacific (16)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (5), North Atlantic (6), North Pacific (12), South Pacific (2)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Indian Ocean (386), Italy (1), North Atlantic (47), North Pacific (200), South Atlantic (30), South Pacific (8)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (60), North Pacific (10), South Atlantic (12), South Pacific (9)
• G. tumida/G. nepenthes CRZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (15)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indian Ocean (9), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (14), South Pacific (1)
• Miocene of Ecuador (1), Indian Ocean (596), North Atlantic (12), North Pacific (306), South Atlantic (17), South Pacific (17), Tanzania (1)
• Neogene of Indian Ocean (4), South Pacific (2)
• Oligocene of North Atlantic (1)
• Eocene of North Atlantic (3)
Total: 2334 collections including 2390 occurrences
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