Coccolithophyceae - Braarudosphaerales
Full reference: M. P. Aubry. 2013. Cenozoic Coccolithophores: Braarudosphaerales. Micropaleontology Press 9
Parent taxon: Coccolithophyceae according to M. P. Aubry 2013
Sister taxa: Athenagalea, Biantholithus, Ceratolithaceae, Coccolithales, Daktylethra, Discoasterales, Ellipsagelosphaeraceae, Ellipsolithus, Gladiolithus, Ilselithina, Isochrysidales, Lanternithus, Minylitha, Neosphaera, Pedinocyclus, Phaeocystales, Prymnesiales, Rhomboasteraceae, Tetralithoides, Transversopontis, Zygodiscales, Syracosphaerales, Goniolithaceae, Lapideacassaceae, Watznaueriales, Prymnesiophycidae, Tetralithus, Stephanolithiales, Calyptrosphaeraceae, Eodiscoaster, Arkhangelskiales, Cyclicargolithus, Discoasteroides, Podorhabdales, Sphenolithus, Eiffellithales
Subtaxa: Polycyclolithaceae
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Miocene of North Pacific (1 collection)
• Eocene of United States (1: California)
• Paleocene of Argentina (10), Indian Ocean (2), South Atlantic (1), Tanzania (1)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (5), Türkiye (2)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (26), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Canada (5: Alberta), Egypt (2), France (1), Germany (1), Indian Ocean (164), Israel (1), North Atlantic (13), North Pacific (14), Romania (1), South Atlantic (10), South Pacific (1), Spain (69), Tanzania (8), Türkiye (1), United States (11: Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, Texas)
• Jurassic of Saudi Arabia (8)
Total: 364 collections including 663 occurrences