Cruciplacolithus tenuis Stradner 1961 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae

Belongs to Cruciplacolithus according to M. S. G. Estebenet et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Cruciplacolithus edwardsii, Cruciplacolithus latipons, Cruciplacolithus primus, Cruciplacolithus staurion

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Paleocene of Argentina (5 collections), United States (2: Missouri)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1)

Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence

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