Coccolithophyceae - Coccosphaerales
Parent taxon: Coccolithophyceae according to M. A. Ruggiero et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Athenagalea, Biantholithus, Braarudosphaerales, Ceratolithaceae, Coccolithales, Daktylethra, Discoasterales, Ellipsagelosphaeraceae, Ellipsolithus, Gladiolithus, Ilselithina, Isochrysidales, Lanternithus, Minylitha, Neosphaera, Pedinocyclus, Phaeocystales, Prymnesiales, Rhomboasteraceae, Tetralithoides, Transversopontis, Zygodiscales, Podorhabdales, Calyptrosphaeraceae, Cyclicargolithus, Eodiscoaster, Tetralithus, Lapideacassaceae, Prymnesiophycidae, Goniolithaceae, Sphenolithus, Discoasteroides, Syracosphaerales, Arkhangelskiales, Eiffellithales, Stephanolithiales, Watznaueriales
Subtaxa: Calcidiscaceae
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (110 collections), North Atlantic (5), North Pacific (50), South Pacific (27)
• G. truncatulinoides PRSZ of Indian Ocean (12), South Pacific (1)
• Brunhes of North Pacific (11)
• C1 of North Pacific (1)
• G. ruber PRZ of Indian Ocean (22), North Atlantic (1)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (883), Italy (1), North Atlantic (448), North Pacific (409), South Atlantic (24), South Pacific (360), Southern Ocean (1)
• C2 of North Pacific (1)
• Neodenticula koizumii of North Pacific (1)
• G. miocenica HOZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (4)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (156), North Pacific (9), South Atlantic (3), South Pacific (13)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (50), North Atlantic (10), North Pacific (21), South Pacific (4)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (372), Italy (1), North Atlantic (75), North Pacific (205), South Atlantic (31), South Pacific (167)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (45), North Pacific (6), South Atlantic (12), South Pacific (14)
• G. tumida/G. nepenthes CRZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (10)
• Neodenticula kamtschatica of North Pacific (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), Indian Ocean (7), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (15), South Pacific (14)
• Neogene of Indian Ocean (6), South Pacific (2)
• Miocene of Cyprus (1), Greece (2), India (1), Indian Ocean (634), Micronesia (4), North Atlantic (22), North Pacific (628), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), South Atlantic (14), South Pacific (181), United States (1: California)
• NN1 of Indian Ocean (3), North Pacific (15), South Pacific (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Pacific (7), South Pacific (2)
• Oligocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (5), North Pacific (20), South Pacific (8)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of North Atlantic (2), North Pacific (1)
• Eocene of North Atlantic (77), North Pacific (14)
• Paleocene to Eocene of North Atlantic (1)
• Paleocene of North Atlantic (9)
• Paleogene of South Pacific (1)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (9), South Pacific (2)
• Cretaceous of Indian Ocean (1), North Pacific (3)
• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 5299 collections including 8449 occurrences