Cruciplacolithus Hay and Mohler 1927 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae

Parent taxon: Prymnesiophycidae according to K. Perch-Nielsen 1985

Sister taxa: Braarudosphaeraceae, Centosphaera, Ceratolithina, Ceratolithoides, Chiphragmalithus, Coccolithites, Coccolithus, Cricolithus, Discoaster, Eoconusphaeraceae, Haqius, Kokia, Liliasterites, Markalius, Marthasterites, Microrhabdulaceae, Nannoconaceae, Neochiastozygus, Orthogonoides, Pontosphaera, Prinsiosphaera, Prolatipatella, Repagulum, Rhabdolithus, Schizosphaerellaceae, Tortolithus, Triquetrorhabdulus, Watkinsia, Zygolithus, Zygrhablithus

Subtaxa: Cruciplacolithus edwardsii Cruciplacolithus latipons Cruciplacolithus primus Cruciplacolithus staurion Cruciplacolithus tenuis

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Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (1 collection)

• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (1)

• Miocene of Indian Ocean (15), North Pacific (1)

• Oligocene of Germany (1), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (9)

• Eocene to Oligocene of North Pacific (1)

• Eocene of North Atlantic (13), North Pacific (9), South Pacific (1), United States (3: California)

• Paleocene of Argentina (13), Indian Ocean (19), North Atlantic (30), South Atlantic (1), United States (2: Missouri)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of South Pacific (1)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (3), Indian Ocean (6)

Total: 131 collections including 198 occurrences

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