Discoaster variabilis Martini and Bramlette 1963 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae

Belongs to Discoaster according to K. Fujioka et al. 1998

See also Faranda et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Discoaster adamanteus, Discoaster bellus, Discoaster brouweri, Discoaster deflandrei, Discoaster intercalaris, Discoaster quinqueramus, Discoaster surculus

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Ireland (1 collection)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1)

• Miocene of Ecuador (2), Greece (1), Micronesia (7), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), Tanzania (1)

Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence

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