Coccolithophyceae - Isochrysidales - Prinsiaceae
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: Prinsiaceae according to J. R. Young and P. R. Bown 1997
Sister taxa: Futyania, Girgisia, Hornibrookina, Neobiscutum
Subtaxa: Prinsius dimorphosus Prinsius martinii Prinsius tenuiculus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (7 collections), South Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (17), South Pacific (1)
• Oligocene of South Pacific (2)
• Eocene of North Atlantic (2), South Pacific (6)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (3), South Pacific (2)
• Paleocene of Argentina (5), Denmark (1), Indian Ocean (14), North Atlantic (36), South Pacific (27), Tanzania (1), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of South Pacific (3)
• Cretaceous of Indian Ocean (1), South Pacific (1)
Total: 134 collections including 203 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.