Coccolithophyceae - Ceratolithaceae
Full reference: E. Kamptner. 1950. Über den submikroskopischen Aufbau der Coccolithen. Anzeiger der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematische-Naturwissenschafliche Klasse, Wien 87:152-158
Parent taxon: Ceratolithaceae according to R.W. Jordan et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Amaurolithus, Angulolithina, Florisphaera, Nicklithus, Orthorhabdus
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (47 collections), North Atlantic (5), North Pacific (19), South Pacific (4)
• Brunhes of North Pacific (4)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (272), North Atlantic (20), North Pacific (61), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (39)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (58), North Pacific (2), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (5)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of North Atlantic (2), North Pacific (8)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (172), North Atlantic (12), North Pacific (76), South Atlantic (6), South Pacific (15)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (28), North Pacific (14), South Atlantic (8), South Pacific (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indian Ocean (4), North Pacific (8)
• Neogene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (60), North Atlantic (2), North Pacific (16), South Atlantic (2), South Pacific (2)
• Oligocene of North Atlantic (2)
• Paleocene to Eocene of North Atlantic (1)
• Paleocene of North Atlantic (1)
• Paleogene of South Pacific (1)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (2)
Total: 982 collections including 1242 occurrences
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