Clausicoccus Prins 1979 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Coccolithales - Coccolithaceae

Full reference: B. Prins. 1979. Notes on nannology 1. Clausicoccus, a new genus of fossil Coccolithophorids. INA Newsletter 1:N2-N4

Parent taxon: Coccolithaceae according to J. R. Young and P. R. Bown 1997

Sister taxa: Bicolumnus, Birkelundia, Bramletteius, Campylosphaera, Chiasmolithus, Coronocyclus, Ericsonia, Gephyrorhabdus, Holodiscolithus, Hughesius, Praeprinsius, Solidopons

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Clausicoccus in the database

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