Discosphaera Haeckel 1894 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Syracosphaerales - Rhabdosphaeraceae

Full reference: E. Haeckel. 1894. Systematische Phylogenie der Protisten und Pflanzen. Entwurf eines Natürlichen Systems der Organismen auf Grund ihrer Stammesgeschichte. Theil1, Systematische Phylogenie der Protisten und Pflanzen

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

Sister taxa: Acanthoica, Algirosphaera, Blackites, Pseudotriquetrorhabdulus, Rhabdosphaera

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• NN21 of Indian Ocean (6 collections), South Pacific (3)

• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (44), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (3), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (16)

• NN16 of Indian Ocean (25)

• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (8)

• NN12 of Indian Ocean (4)

• Miocene of Indian Ocean (2)

• Paleocene of North Atlantic (6)

Total: 119 collections each including a single occurrence

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