Coccolithophyceae - Eiffellithales - Chiastozygaceae

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

Sister taxa: Ahmuellerella, Amphizygus, Archaeozygodiscus, Bownia, Bukrylithus, Chiastozygus, Clepsilithus, Crepidolithus, Diadorhombus, Gorkaea, Heteromarginatus, Jakubowskia, Misceomarginatus, Monomarginatus, Neocrepidolithus, Placozygus, Reinhardtites, Retemediaformis, Rhabdophidites, Staurolithites, Tranolithus, Tubirhabdus, Zeugrhabdotus

Subtaxa: Loxolithus armilla Loxolithus thiersteinii

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Type: Cyclolithus armilla

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Walvis Ridge, dredge CH 18 DR 04 (Cretaceous of South Atlantic)

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