†Bomolithus Roth 1973 (haptophyte alga)
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Coccolithophyceae - Discoasterales - Heliolithaceae
Full reference: P. H. Roth. 1973. Calcareous nannofossils: Leg 17 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 17:695-795
Parent taxon: Heliolithaceae according to P. H. Roth 1973
Sister taxon: Heliolithus
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Eocene of Indian Ocean (3 collections), North Atlantic (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (2)
• Paleocene of Indian Ocean (5), North Atlantic (8)
• Cretaceous of Indian Ocean (2)
Total: 22 collections including 24 occurrences
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