Order Zygodiscales Young and Bown 1997 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Zygodiscales

Full reference: J. R. Young and P. R. Bown. 1997. Cenozoic calcareous nannoplankton classification. Journal of Nannoplankton Research 19(1):36-47

Parent taxon: Coccolithophyceae according to J. R. Young and P. R. Bown 1997

Sister taxa: Athenagalea, Biantholithus, Braarudosphaerales, Ceratolithaceae, Coccolithales, Daktylethra, Discoasterales, Ellipsagelosphaeraceae, Ellipsolithus, Gladiolithus, Ilselithina, Isochrysidales, Lanternithus, Minylitha, Neosphaera, Pedinocyclus, Phaeocystales, Prymnesiales, Rhomboasteraceae, Tetralithoides, Transversopontis, Cyclicargolithus, Discoasteroides, Eodiscoaster, Watznaueriales, Lapideacassaceae, Goniolithaceae, Arkhangelskiales, Stephanolithiales, Tetralithus, Eiffellithales, Calyptrosphaeraceae, Sphenolithus, Syracosphaerales, Prymnesiophycidae, Podorhabdales

Subtaxa: Helicosphaeraceae Pontosphaeraceae Zygodiscaceae

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Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• NN21 of Indian Ocean (3 collections), North Pacific (1)

• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (100), North Atlantic (11), North Pacific (11), South Pacific (38)

• G. miocenica HOZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (1)

• NN16 of Indian Ocean (55), South Pacific (4)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (2)

• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (93), Italy (1), North Atlantic (7), North Pacific (12), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (30)

• NN12 of Indian Ocean (24), North Pacific (3), South Atlantic (1)

• G. tumida/G. nepenthes CRZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (3), South Pacific (1)

• Miocene of Indian Ocean (116), North Atlantic (2), North Pacific (63), South Pacific (13)

• Oligocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (14), North Pacific (3), South Pacific (17)

• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (9)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Indian Ocean (3), North Atlantic (2), North Pacific (1), South Pacific (9), Southern Ocean (2)

• Eocene of Indian Ocean (16), Jordan (1), Namibia (1), North Atlantic (139), North Pacific (54), South Pacific (158), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: California)

• Paleocene to Eocene of South Pacific (1)

• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (1)

• Paleocene of Argentina (4), Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (9), South Atlantic (1), United States (1: South Carolina)

• Cretaceous of Canada (7: Alberta)

• Jurassic of Saudi Arabia (1)

Total: 1065 collections including 1363 occurrences

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