†family Prinsiaceae Hay and Mohler 1967 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Isochrysidales - Prinsiaceae

Full reference: W. W. Hay and H. P. Mohler. 1967. Calcareous nannoplankton from Early Tertiary rocks at Point Labau, France and Paleocene-Early Eocene correlations. Journal of Paleontology 41(6):1505-1541

Parent taxon: Isochrysidales according to J. R. Young et al. 2003

Sister taxa: Gephyrocapsaceae, Isochrysidaceae, Noelaerhabdaceae

Subtaxa: Futyania Girgisia Hornibrookina Neobiscutum Prinsius

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Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (7 collections), South Pacific (3)

• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (1)

• Miocene of Indian Ocean (17), South Pacific (1)

• Oligocene of South Pacific (3)

• Eocene of North Atlantic (38), North Pacific (3), South Pacific (52)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (3), South Pacific (3)

• Paleocene of Argentina (9), Denmark (1), Indian Ocean (14), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (37), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (27), Tanzania (1), United States (1: South Carolina)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of South Pacific (3)

• Cretaceous of Indian Ocean (1), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (1)

Total: 231 collections including 309 occurrences

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