Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Parent taxon: Prymnesiophycidae according to K. Perch-Nielsen 1985
Sister taxa: 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
Subtaxa: Zygrhablithus bijugatus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (2 collections), South Pacific (8)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (22), North Pacific (1), South Pacific (8)
• NN1 of Indian Ocean (3), South Pacific (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of North Atlantic (2), South Pacific (3)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Indian Ocean (17), North Atlantic (7), North Pacific (31), South Pacific (44)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (11)
• NP21 of North Pacific (7)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Indian Ocean (3), North Pacific (1), South Pacific (11)
• Eocene of Indian Ocean (23), Jordan (1), Namibia (1), North Atlantic (86), South Pacific (164), Tonga (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Georgia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (3), South Pacific (2)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (7)
• Cretaceous of Indian Ocean (2)
Total: 480 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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