Belongs to Sphenolithus according to Deflandre 1952
Sister taxa: Sphenolithus abies, Sphenolithus compactus, Sphenolithus heteromorphus, Sphenolithus moriformis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (7 collections), South Pacific (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (5), North Pacific (1)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (18), South Pacific (1)
• NN1 of South Pacific (1)
• Oligocene of Indian Ocean (2), North Pacific (3), South Pacific (2)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (4)
• NP21 of Indian Ocean (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of North Atlantic (1)
• Eocene of North Atlantic (118), North Pacific (40), South Pacific (95), United States (3: California)
• Paleocene to Eocene of South Pacific (2)
Total: 306 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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