Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae

Synonym: Cretaturbella Thierstein 1971

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

See also Farinacci 1969

Sister taxa: Calcivascularis, Eoconusphaera

Subtaxa: Conusphaera mexicana Conusphaera rothii Conusphaera sinespina

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Type: Conusphaera mexicana

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Heisterholz, near Petershagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Cretaceous of Germany)

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