Sphenolithus radians Deflandre 1952 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae

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

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