Coccolithophyceae - Discoasterales - Fasciculithaceae
Full reference: M. N. Bramlette and F. R. Sullivan. 1961. Coccolithophorids and related nannoplankton of the Early Tertiary in California. Micropaleontology 7(2):129-188
Parent taxon: Fasciculithaceae according to P. R. Bown 2010
Sister taxon: Lithoptychius
Subtaxa: none
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 293 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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