Lapideacassis Black 1971 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Lapideacassaceae

Synonym: Scampanella Forchheimer and Stradner 1973

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

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Lapideacassis asymmetrica Lapideacassis bispinosa Lapideacassis blackii Lapideacassis cornuta Lapideacassis glans Lapideacassis magnifica Lapideacassis mariae Lapideacassis tricornus

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Type: Lapideacassis glans

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Lapideacassis in the database

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