Coccolithophyceae - Coccolithales
Synonym: Coccolithophorales [objective synonym]
Full reference: E. Schwarz. 1932. Beitrage zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Protophyten. IX. Der Formwechsel von Ochrosphaera neapolitana. Archiv für Protistenkunde 77:434-462
Parent taxon: Coccolithophyceae according to E. Schwarz 1932
See also Silva et al. 2007 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Athenagalea, Biantholithus, Braarudosphaerales, Ceratolithaceae, Coccosphaerales, Daktylethra, Discoasterales, Ellipsagelosphaeraceae, Ellipsolithus, Gladiolithus, Ilselithina, Isochrysidales, Lanternithus, Minylitha, Neosphaera, Pedinocyclus, Phaeocystales, Prymnesiales, Rhomboasteraceae, Tetralithoides, Transversopontis, Zygodiscales, Podorhabdales, Tetralithus, Lapideacassaceae, Syracosphaerales, Calyptrosphaeraceae, Watznaueriales, Prymnesiophycidae, Eodiscoaster, Sphenolithus, Eiffellithales, Discoasteroides, Arkhangelskiales, Goniolithaceae, Stephanolithiales, Cyclicargolithus
Subtaxa: Caliptrosphaerites Clathrolithus Coccolithacea Coccolithaceae Cylindrosphaera Hymenomonadaceae Pemma Peritrachelina Pleurochrysidaceae Rhabdosphaerites
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (7 collections), North Pacific (1)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (35), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (3), South Pacific (74)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (6), North Atlantic (4), North Pacific (6), South Pacific (10)
• NN12 of South Pacific (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (1)
• Miocene of India (1), Indian Ocean (214), North Atlantic (23), North Pacific (361), Slovakia (2), South Pacific (40), Southern Ocean (1)
• NN1 of Indian Ocean (8), North Pacific (17)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (17), North Pacific (26), South Pacific (7)
• Oligocene of Indian Ocean (31), North Atlantic (72), North Pacific (237), South Pacific (60), Southern Ocean (15)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (10)
• NP21 of North Pacific (10)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Indian Ocean (3), North Atlantic (2), North Pacific (31), South Pacific (16), Southern Ocean (2)
• Eocene of Azerbaijan (1), Indian Ocean (43), Italy (1), Jordan (1), Namibia (1), North Atlantic (212), North Pacific (126), South Pacific (177), Tonga (1), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: California, Georgia, North Carolina)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Indian Ocean (3), North Atlantic (3), South Pacific (4)
• Paleocene of Argentina (11), Indian Ocean (18), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (45), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (32), Tanzania (1), United States (3: Missouri, South Carolina)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (3)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of South Pacific (3)
• Cretaceous of Indian Ocean (4), South Pacific (1), United States (1: Nebraska)
Total: 2066 collections including 3808 occurrences