Coccolithophyceae - Discoasterales - Fasciculithaceae
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: Discoasterales according to J. R. Young and P. R. Bown 1997
Sister taxa: Discoasteraceae, Heliolithaceae
Subtaxa: Fasciculithus Lithoptychius
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (1 collection), South Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (6)
• Oligocene of Indian Ocean (2), South Pacific (1)
• Eocene of Indian Ocean (4), North Atlantic (8), South Pacific (4)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Indian Ocean (3), North Atlantic (4), South Pacific (3)
• Paleocene of Indian Ocean (14), North Atlantic (41), South Pacific (24), Tanzania (1), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of North Atlantic (4), South Pacific (2)
• Cretaceous of Indian Ocean (2)
Total: 127 collections including 297 occurrences