Coccolithophyceae - Syracosphaerales - Rhabdosphaeraceae
Full reference: W. W. Hay and K. M. Towe. 1962. Electron microscope examination of some coccoliths from Donzacq (France). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 55:497-517
Parent taxon: Rhabdosphaeraceae according to J. R. Young and P. R. Bown 1997
Sister taxa: Acanthoica, Algirosphaera, Discosphaera, Pseudotriquetrorhabdulus, Rhabdosphaera
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of North Atlantic (1 collection)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Pliocene of North Pacific (1)
• Oligocene of North Atlantic (14), North Pacific (4)
• Eocene to Oligocene of North Atlantic (2), North Pacific (12), South Pacific (1)
• Eocene of Indian Ocean (2), Jordan (1), North Atlantic (104), North Pacific (46), South Pacific (6), Ukraine (4)
• Paleocene to Eocene of North Atlantic (1)
• Paleocene of North Atlantic (5)
• Cretaceous of Indian Ocean (1)
Total: 206 collections including 307 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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