Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Synonyms: Discolithina Loeblich and Tappan 1963, Discolithus Huxley 1868
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, Prinsiosphaera, Prolatipatella, Repagulum, Rhabdolithus, Schizosphaerellaceae, Tortolithus, Triquetrorhabdulus, Watkinsia, Zygolithus, Zygrhablithus
Subtaxa: Discolithus exilis Discolithus solidus Pontosphaera exilis Pontosphaera multipora Pontosphaera obliquipons Pontosphaera pulchra
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (33 collections), North Atlantic (4), North Pacific (22), South Pacific (4)
• G. truncatulinoides PRSZ of Indian Ocean (1)
• Brunhes of North Pacific (7)
• C1 of North Pacific (3)
• G. ruber PRZ of Indian Ocean (26)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (407), Italy (2), North Atlantic (197), North Pacific (181), South Atlantic (6), South Pacific (185)
• C2 of North Pacific (2)
• Neodenticula koizumii of North Pacific (1)
• G. miocenica HOZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (1)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (87), North Pacific (2), South Pacific (5)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (36), North Atlantic (5), North Pacific (5), South Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (227), Italy (1), North Atlantic (51), North Pacific (63), South Atlantic (5), South Pacific (92)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (27), North Pacific (3), South Atlantic (2)
• G. tumida/G. nepenthes CRZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (5)
• Neodenticula kamtschatica of North Pacific (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indian Ocean (3), North Pacific (3), South Pacific (6)
• Neogene of South Pacific (2)
• Miocene of Azerbaijan (1), Greece (1), Indian Ocean (362), Indonesia (1), North Atlantic (20), North Pacific (161), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (1), South Atlantic (2), South Pacific (35)
• NN1 of North Atlantic (3), North Pacific (12)
• Oligocene to Miocene of North Atlantic (11), North Pacific (2), South Pacific (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (53), North Pacific (52)
• NP21 of North Pacific (8)
• Eocene to Oligocene of North Atlantic (2)
• Eocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (47), North Pacific (12), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: California, Georgia)
• Paleocene to Oligocene of Argentina (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (6), Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (1), South Atlantic (1), Tanzania (1)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (3)
• Paleogene of South Pacific (1)
Total: 2528 collections including 3259 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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