Coccolithophyceae - Coccolithales - Coccolithaceae
Full reference: F. Poche. 1913. Das System der Protozoa. Archiv für Protistenkunde 30:125-321
Parent taxon: Coccolithales according to F. Poche 1913
Sister taxa: Hymenomonadaceae, Pleurochrysidaceae
Subtaxa: Bicolumnus Birkelundia Bramletteius Campylosphaera Chiasmolithus Clausicoccus Coronocyclus Ericsonia Gephyrorhabdus Holodiscolithus Hughesius Praeprinsius Solidopons
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Miocene of India (1 collection), Slovakia (2)
• Eocene of Azerbaijan (1), Italy (1), Jordan (1), Namibia (1), Tonga (1), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: California, Georgia)
• Paleocene of Argentina (12), New Zealand (1), Tanzania (1), United States (3: Missouri, South Carolina)
Total: 32 collections including 46 occurrences