Bukryaster Prins 1971 (haptophyte alga)

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

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Type: Rucinolithus hayi

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Liodon asiaticum type locality (Cretaceous of Israel)

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