†family Prediscosphaeraceae Rood et al. 1971 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Podorhabdales - Prediscosphaeraceae

Parent taxon: Podorhabdales according to P. R. Bown and J. R. Young 1997

Sister taxa: Axopodorhabdaceae, Biscutaceae, Calyculaceae, Cretarhabdaceae, Mazaganellaceae, Tubodiscaceae

Subtaxa: Petrarhabdus Prediscosphaera

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Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Turkey (2 collections)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (25), Austria (1), Belgium (1), France (1), Israel (1), Romania (1)

Total: 32 collections including 61 occurrences

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