Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Parent taxon: Prymnesiophyceae according to J.R Young and P. R. Bown 1997
Sister taxa: Athenagalea, Biantholithus, Braarudosphaerales, Ceratolithaceae, Coccolithales, Coccosphaerales, Daktylethra, Discoasterales, Ellipsagelosphaeraceae, Ellipsolithus, Gladiolithus, Ilselithina, Isochrysidales, Lanternithus, Minylitha, Neosphaera, Pedinocyclus, Phaeocystales, Prymnesiales, Rhomboasteraceae, Tetralithoides, Transversopontis, Zygodiscales, Syracosphaerales, Tetralithus, Stephanolithiales, Eiffellithales, Podorhabdales, Arkhangelskiales, Watznaueriales, Discoasteroides, Lapideacassaceae, Calyptrosphaeraceae, Eodiscoaster, Cyclicargolithus, Sphenolithus, Goniolithaceae
Subtaxa: Braarudosphaeraceae Centosphaera Ceratolithina Ceratolithoides Chiphragmalithus Coccolithites Coccolithus Cricolithus Cruciplacolithus Discoaster Eoconusphaeraceae Haqius Kokia Liliasterites Markalius Marthasterites Microrhabdulaceae Nannoconaceae Neochiastozygus Orthogonoides Pontosphaera Prinsiosphaera Prolatipatella Repagulum Rhabdolithus Schizosphaerellaceae Tortolithus Triquetrorhabdulus Watkinsia Zygolithus Zygrhablithus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (39 collections), North Atlantic (6), North Pacific (56), South Pacific (8)
• Neodenticula seminae of North Pacific (2)
• G. truncatulinoides PRSZ of Indian Ocean (1), South Pacific (1)
• Brunhes of North Pacific (9)
• C1 of North Pacific (18)
• G. ruber PRZ of Indian Ocean (28)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (644), Italy (2), North Atlantic (472), North Pacific (616), South Atlantic (50), South Pacific (403), Southern Ocean (1)
• C2 of North Pacific (2)
• Neodenticula koizumii of North Pacific (1)
• G. miocenica HOZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (12)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (170), North Pacific (8), South Atlantic (3), South Pacific (18)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (44), North Atlantic (11), North Pacific (22), South Pacific (6)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Indian Ocean (485), Italy (1), North Atlantic (78), North Pacific (270), South Atlantic (31), South Pacific (258)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (78), North Pacific (14), South Atlantic (12), South Pacific (14)
• G. tumida/G. nepenthes CRZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (17)
• Neodenticula kamtschatica of North Pacific (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), Indian Ocean (11), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (15), South Pacific (17)
• Miocene of Azerbaijan (2), Ecuador (2), France (1), Greece (1), India (1), Indian Ocean (1165), Indonesia (1), Italy (2), Micronesia (7), North Atlantic (60), North Pacific (934), Slovakia (4), Slovenia (1), South Atlantic (30), South Pacific (206), Southern Ocean (4), Taiwan (1), Tanzania (1), United States (1: California)
• Neogene of Indian Ocean (7), South Pacific (2)
• NN1 of Indian Ocean (11), North Atlantic (5), North Pacific (17), South Pacific (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (22), North Pacific (44), South Pacific (13)
• Oligocene of Costa Rica (1), Germany (2), Indian Ocean (53), North Atlantic (108), North Pacific (358), South Pacific (68), Southern Ocean (12), United States (1: Virginia)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (12)
• NP21 of Indian Ocean (1), North Pacific (13)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Indian Ocean (3), North Atlantic (4), North Pacific (37), South Pacific (16)
• Eocene of Azerbaijan (1), Indian Ocean (54), Jordan (1), Namibia (1), North Atlantic (246), North Pacific (215), Peru (1), South Pacific (187), Tonga (1), Ukraine (7), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: California, Georgia, North Carolina)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Indian Ocean (3), North Atlantic (5), South Pacific (4)
• Paleocene to Oligocene of Argentina (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (20), Denmark (1), Indian Ocean (32), North Atlantic (66), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (42), Tanzania (1), United States (4: Missouri, South Carolina)
• Paleogene of South Pacific (1)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (10), South Pacific (2)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of North Atlantic (6), South Pacific (3)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (21), Austria (1), Canada (3: Alberta), Egypt (2), France (1), Germany (2), Indian Ocean (112), Israel (1), Italy (1), North Atlantic (4), North Pacific (13), Slovakia (2), South Atlantic (5), South Pacific (1), Spain (26), Tanzania (6), United States (8: Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi)
• Jurassic of Austria (4), Germany (7), Morocco (19), Saudi Arabia (2), Spain (121)
Total: 8484 collections including 30088 occurrences