Minylitha Bukry 1973 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae

Full reference: D. Bukry. 1973. Coccolith stratigraphy, eastern equatorial Pacific, Leg 16, Deep Sea Drilling Project. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 16:653-711

Parent taxon: Coccolithophyceae according to D. Bukry 1973

Sister taxa: Athenagalea, Biantholithus, Braarudosphaerales, Ceratolithaceae, Coccolithales, Coccosphaerales, Daktylethra, Discoasterales, Ellipsagelosphaeraceae, Ellipsolithus, Gladiolithus, Ilselithina, Isochrysidales, Lanternithus, Neosphaera, Pedinocyclus, Phaeocystales, Prymnesiales, Rhomboasteraceae, Tetralithoides, Transversopontis, Zygodiscales, Discoasteroides, Podorhabdales, Tetralithus, Watznaueriales, Goniolithaceae, Eiffellithales, Calyptrosphaeraceae, Stephanolithiales, Arkhangelskiales, Cyclicargolithus, Syracosphaerales, Eodiscoaster, Prymnesiophycidae, Lapideacassaceae, Sphenolithus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of South Pacific (1 collection)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Pacific (1)

• Pliocene of South Pacific (1)

• Miocene of Indian Ocean (24), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (9), South Pacific (1)

• Paleocene of North Atlantic (1)

Total: 39 collections each including a single occurrence

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