†Discoaster bellus Bukry and Percival 1971 (haptophyte alga)
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Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Belongs to Discoaster according to Bukry and Percival 1971
Sister taxa: Discoaster adamanteus, Discoaster brouweri, Discoaster deflandrei, Discoaster intercalaris, Discoaster quinqueramus, Discoaster surculus, Discoaster variabilis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution: found only at Gergeri-Raptis, silty clays, sample KR61 (Miocene of Greece)
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