Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Parent taxon: Prymnesiophycidae according to P. R. Bown and J. R. Young 1997
Sister taxa: Braarudosphaeraceae, Centosphaera, Ceratolithina, Ceratolithoides, Chiphragmalithus, Coccolithites, Coccolithus, Cricolithus, Cruciplacolithus, Discoaster, Eoconusphaeraceae, Haqius, Kokia, Liliasterites, Marthasterites, Microrhabdulaceae, Nannoconaceae, Neochiastozygus, Orthogonoides, Pontosphaera, Prinsiosphaera, Prolatipatella, Repagulum, Rhabdolithus, Schizosphaerellaceae, Tortolithus, Triquetrorhabdulus, Watkinsia, Zygolithus, Zygrhablithus
Subtaxa: Markalius apertus Markalius inversus Markalius neuquenensis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (2 collections), South Pacific (2)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (3)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), North Atlantic (4)
• Eocene to Oligocene of North Atlantic (1)
• Eocene of North Atlantic (43), South Pacific (2), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Paleocene of Argentina (15), North Atlantic (14), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (7), United States (2: Missouri)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (16), South Atlantic (4)
Total: 118 collections including 131 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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