Family Umbellosphaeraceae Young et al. 2003 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Syracosphaerales - Umbellosphaeraceae

Full reference: J. R. Young, M. Geisen, L. Cros, A. Kleijne, C. Sprengel, I. Probert, and J. Ostergaard. 2003. A guide to extant calcareous nannoplankton taxonomy. Journal of Nannoplankton Research Special Issue 1:1-125

Parent taxon: Syracosphaerales according to R.W. Jordan et al. 2004

Sister taxa: Calciosoleniaceae, Rhabdosphaeraceae, Syracosphaeraceae

Subtaxa: Umbellosphaera

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Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• NN21 of Indian Ocean (24 collections), North Pacific (15), South Pacific (9)

• Brunhes of North Pacific (1)

• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (78), North Pacific (6), South Pacific (33)

• NN16 of Indian Ocean (4), North Pacific (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (5)

• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (7), North Pacific (2)

• NN12 of Indian Ocean (1)

• G. tumida/G. nepenthes CRZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (1)

• Miocene of North Pacific (1), South Pacific (5)

• Eocene of North Atlantic (2)

Total: 195 collections including 232 occurrences

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