Corollithion Stradner 1961 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Stephanolithiales - Stephanolithiaceae

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

Sister taxa: Rhombolithion, Rotelapillus, Stephanolithion, Stoverius, Stradnerlithus, Truncatoscaphus

Subtaxa: Corollithion acutum Corollithion completum Corollithion ellipticum Corollithion exiguum Corollithion fractum Corollithion kennedyi Corollithion madagaskarensis Corollithion protosignum Corollithion signum

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Type: Corollithion exiguum

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta collection), France (1), Tanzania (3)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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