Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Alternative combination: Cyclococcolithus inversus
Belongs to Markalius according to M. S. González Estebenet et al. 2021
See also Bown 1998 and Pérez Panera 2013
Sister taxa: Markalius apertus, Markalius neuquenensis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (2 collections), South Pacific (1)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), North Atlantic (2)
• Eocene to Oligocene of North Atlantic (1)
• Eocene of North Atlantic (42), South Pacific (2)
• Paleocene of Argentina (15), North Atlantic (13), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (7), United States (2: Missouri)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (13), South Atlantic (4)
Total: 107 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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