†Cruciplacolithus primus Perch-Nielsen 1977 (haptophyte alga)
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Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Belongs to Cruciplacolithus according to M. S. González Estebenet et al. 2021
See also Pérez Panera 2013
Sister taxa: Cruciplacolithus edwardsii, Cruciplacolithus latipons, Cruciplacolithus staurion, Cruciplacolithus tenuis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Argentina (11 collections), South Atlantic (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (2)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
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