Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Parent taxon: Prymnesiophycidae according to K. Perch-Nielsen 1985
Sister taxa: Braarudosphaeraceae, Centosphaera, Ceratolithina, Ceratolithoides, Chiphragmalithus, Coccolithites, Coccolithus, Cricolithus, Cruciplacolithus, Eoconusphaeraceae, Haqius, Kokia, Liliasterites, Markalius, Marthasterites, Microrhabdulaceae, Nannoconaceae, Neochiastozygus, Orthogonoides, Pontosphaera, Prinsiosphaera, Prolatipatella, Repagulum, Rhabdolithus, Schizosphaerellaceae, Tortolithus, Triquetrorhabdulus, Watkinsia, Zygolithus, Zygrhablithus
Subtaxa: Discoaster adamanteus Discoaster bellus Discoaster brouweri Discoaster deflandrei Discoaster intercalaris Discoaster quinqueramus Discoaster surculus Discoaster variabilis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (3 collections), North Pacific (2), South Pacific (1)
• G. ruber PRZ of Indian Ocean (1)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (257), North Atlantic (17), North Pacific (103), South Atlantic (5), South Pacific (185)
• G. miocenica HOZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (12)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (169), North Pacific (8), South Atlantic (3), South Pacific (18)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (8), North Atlantic (7), North Pacific (14), South Pacific (3)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Indian Ocean (442), Italy (1), North Atlantic (78), North Pacific (246), South Atlantic (31), South Pacific (37)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (72), North Pacific (14), South Atlantic (12), South Pacific (14)
• G. tumida/G. nepenthes CRZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (16)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), Indian Ocean (11), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (15), South Pacific (4)
• Neogene of Indian Ocean (6), South Pacific (2)
• Miocene of Ecuador (2), Greece (1), India (1), Indian Ocean (1061), Italy (1), Micronesia (7), North Atlantic (56), North Pacific (879), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), South Atlantic (30), South Pacific (131), Taiwan (1), Tanzania (1)
• NN1 of Indian Ocean (11), North Atlantic (5), North Pacific (17), South Pacific (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (22), North Pacific (40), South Pacific (11)
• Oligocene of Costa Rica (1), Indian Ocean (39), North Atlantic (100), North Pacific (322), South Pacific (57), Southern Ocean (1), United States (1: Virginia)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (12)
• NP21 of Indian Ocean (1), North Pacific (5)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (3), North Pacific (30), South Pacific (10)
• Eocene of Azerbaijan (1), Indian Ocean (48), Jordan (1), Namibia (1), North Atlantic (239), North Pacific (196), South Pacific (171), Tonga (1), Ukraine (7), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: California, Georgia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Indian Ocean (3), North Atlantic (5), South Pacific (2)
• Paleocene of Indian Ocean (9), North Atlantic (32), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (5), United States (2: South Carolina)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (6)
• Paleogene of South Pacific (1)
• Cretaceous of Indian Ocean (28), North Pacific (2)
Total: 5455 collections including 15770 occurrences
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