Family Zygodiscaceae Hay and Mohler 1967 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Zygodiscales - Zygodiscaceae

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: Zygodiscales according to W. W. Hay and H. P. Mohler 1967

Sister taxa: Helicosphaeraceae, Pontosphaeraceae

Subtaxa: Isthmolithus Lophodolithus Nannotetrina Neococcolithes Zygodiscus

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Type: Zygodiscus

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of North Atlantic (1 collection), South Pacific (21)

• Pliocene of South Pacific (3)

• Miocene of Indian Ocean (1), South Pacific (2)

• Oligocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (14), North Pacific (2), 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 (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: California)

• Paleocene to Eocene of South Pacific (1)

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

• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (1)

• Cretaceous of Canada (7: Alberta)

• Jurassic of Saudi Arabia (1)

Total: 483 collections including 720 occurrences

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