Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Belongs to Discoaster according to Gartner 1969
Sister taxa: Discoaster adamanteus, Discoaster bellus, Discoaster brouweri, Discoaster deflandrei, Discoaster intercalaris, Discoaster surculus, Discoaster variabilis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of North Pacific (1 collection)
• Quaternary of North Pacific (8)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (3)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Indian Ocean (12), North Atlantic (6), North Pacific (29), South Pacific (8)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (3), South Pacific (12)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (3)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (364), North Atlantic (10), North Pacific (182), South Atlantic (22), South Pacific (10), Tanzania (1)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (1)
• Paleocene of North Atlantic (1)
Total: 679 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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