Discoaster surculus Martini and Bramlette 1963 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae

Belongs to Discoaster according to Martini and Bramlette 1963

Sister taxa: Discoaster adamanteus, Discoaster bellus, Discoaster brouweri, Discoaster deflandrei, Discoaster intercalaris, Discoaster quinqueramus, Discoaster variabilis

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• NN21 of North Pacific (1 collection)

• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (34), North Atlantic (3), North Pacific (7), South Pacific (9)

• NN16 of Indian Ocean (105), North Pacific (5), South Atlantic (2), South Pacific (8)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (2)

• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (196), Italy (1), North Atlantic (61), North Pacific (143), South Atlantic (29), South Pacific (16)

• NN12 of Indian Ocean (59), North Pacific (12), South Atlantic (12), South Pacific (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Indian Ocean (7), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (12), South Pacific (1)

• Miocene of Indian Ocean (319), North Atlantic (8), North Pacific (174), South Atlantic (27), South Pacific (9), Tanzania (1)

• Eocene of North Atlantic (3)

• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (2)

Total: 1271 collections each including a single occurrence

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