Coccolithophyceae - Zygodiscales - Zygodiscaceae
Parent taxon: Zygodiscaceae according to G. Deflandre and C. Fert 1954
See also Andrews 1970
Sister taxa: Lophodolithus, Nannotetrina, Neococcolithes, Zygodiscus
Subtaxa: Isthmolithus recurvus
Type: Isthmolithus recurvus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of North Atlantic (1 collection), South Pacific (12)
• Pliocene of South Pacific (3)
• Miocene of South Pacific (1)
• Oligocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (13), North Pacific (2), South Pacific (14)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (5)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Indian Ocean (3), North Atlantic (2), North Pacific (1), South Pacific (9), Southern Ocean (2)
• Eocene of Indian Ocean (4), Namibia (1), North Atlantic (43), North Pacific (11), South Pacific (46), the United Kingdom (1)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (1)
Total: 176 collections each including a single occurrence
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