†Bukryaster Prins 1971 (haptophyte alga)
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Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Parent taxon: Braarudosphaeraceae according to P. R. Bown and J. R. Young 1997
Sister taxa: Braarudosphaera, Micrantholithus, Pentaster, Quinquerhabdus, Trapezopentus
Subtaxa: Bukryaster hayi
Type: Rucinolithus hayi
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution: found only at Liodon asiaticum type locality (Cretaceous of Israel)
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