†Calciosolenia Gran 1912 (haptophyte alga)
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Coccolithophyceae - Syracosphaerales - Calciosoleniaceae
Synonym: Scapholithus Deflandre 1954
Parent taxon: Calciosoleniaceae according to J. R. Young et al. 2003
See also Andrews 1970 and Bown and Young 1997
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Calciosolenia fossilis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (1 collection)
• Paleocene of Tanzania (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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